10 Reasons Why Chrome OS Will Outshine Nokia, Linux on Netbooks

Quote from dcraig:

For many non-business users, read and write Word documents is quite good enough.
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No way, no how is it "quite good enough". Interchanged documents are a headache - especially spreadsheets - far too often they don't display correctly or print correctly. And this is apart from usability issues, as OpenOffice is retina-burning in its sheer ugliness of presentation.

It's about 90% good for sharing, which sounds good, but in reality means it's a continual disaster in most companies because it means problems with multiple documents per day. It needs to be 99.99%.

Maybe one day, hopefully one day, but right now OpenOffice is still in a Penny wise, pound foolish state.
 
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It doesn't meet the single most important requirement - seamless integration with the rest of the Office using world.

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Actually it does and you're wrong. I know people who run VMware and use two operating systems. A couple friends in graphics design and marketing do it and it works great.
 
The beauty of Google Docs is that you never lose them... even with autoarchival services I've lost documents.. I hate that mess... If OpenOffice EVER worked, at any time in the past or the present, it would be widespread. About every other year I install it to see if it's up to usability and every time I'm so glad to get rid of it after about a half an hour that it's unreal...

I just get a copy of Office Student Version every so often and I have a useful Excel going for me, I don't word process other than I have a lot of informal documents with Google docs for planning and diaries and whatnot...
 
I try to use open office in my business. The longest I went without switching back to word was about 10 days.

figuring out workarounds gets time consuming.
 
Random ,

r u aware tht u can save all files in MS O formats from OO ? wen i hv 2 send files to MS O users i just save them as xls/doc & it works fine always

r u hvng probs even after doin this?

have been a happy OO user for 10 years now - re the workaround s etc - well if u hav suff. hatred for MS (my 1st PC was W Me!!) u'll invest that time

think u need some evangelical fervour about open source - to be able to make the shift
 
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