Comments on: Freeware alternatives for Windows http://spherebox.siansiew.com/2006/11/28/freeware-alternatives-for-windows/ Leveraging on technology to achieve our goals. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kaj Kandler http://spherebox.siansiew.com/2006/11/28/freeware-alternatives-for-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Kaj Kandler Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:14:58 +0000 http://spherebox.com/2006/11/28/freeware-alternatives-for-windows/#comment-16 As far as MS Office is concerned, you will have to make a stark choice right now between MS Office 2003 and upcoming Office 2007. Office 2007 has a new user interface that is rather hard to learn because it has lots of intelligence that gets in your way. Think of the paper-clip kind of intelligence and the dynamic menus, that hide actions you have not used in a while. OpenOffice is quite similar to the existing Office applications in its user interface. Also there is a great professional support resource, Plan-B for OpenOffice. http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/index It is great for those that migrate from other office packages. But don't take my word for it, check it out. K As far as MS Office is concerned, you will have to make a stark choice right now between MS Office 2003 and upcoming Office 2007. Office 2007 has a new user interface that is rather hard to learn because it has lots of intelligence that gets in your way. Think of the paper-clip kind of intelligence and the dynamic menus, that hide actions you have not used in a while.

OpenOffice is quite similar to the existing Office applications in its user interface. Also there is a great professional support resource, Plan-B for OpenOffice.
http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/index
It is great for those that migrate from other office packages. But don’t take my word for it, check it out.

K

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