Comments on: Do Office and OpenOffice Matter?

By: tecosystems » IBM Joins OpenOffice.org: The Q&A

tecosystems » IBM Joins OpenOffice.org: The Q&A — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:37:17 +0000

[...] significantly from the above. I asked back in February, actually, whether or not Office and OO.o even mattered. It was tongue in cheek, because they obviously do, but I don’t think either one will be the [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Open Thread: What Word Processor or Text Editor Do You Use? «

Sat, 12 May 2007 17:31:00 +0000

[...] analyst Steve O’Grady suggested in February that the office suite market has peaked; if so, this has serious consequences for the competitiveness of desktop word processors relative [...]

By: James Governor

James Governor — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:33:34 +0000

this also has some of the rich app/poor app pattern about it. I mean Rich Text Editor… wtf – its text

my traffic here via anne.

one thing sog- for some reason this never remembers my details? weird

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:29:45 +0000

I think Stephen’s hit the mark here. I wrote about the growing importance of format over application in Part 1 of a review of word processors for DonationCoder.com at:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/WordProcs/

One evident lure of ODF and StarOffice/OpenOffice for governments is not just their cost comparison to MSOffice, but the more simplified feature sets of StarOffice/OpenOffice and yes, notably Zoho, ThinkFree, and Google Docs. Most governments don’t need the complexity — not to mention the cost and training time — of Office 2007. They know their workers only use a small subset of the total features. Word 2007 has evolved into a desktop publishing program, it seems.

Programs like Outlook, Gmail, and IM clients are used far more often than the word processor. The word processor will never go away, but its centrality to the office has clearly shifted to tools that offer more immediate means for communication and feedback.

By: sogrady

sogrady — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:27:12 +0000

Christopher: your experience is much like mine. i do less and less writing in OO.o every month, and i’m in regular Office even less. even granting that i’m an outlier in statistical terms, i can’t think my experience is irrelevant either.

Ian: on the latter point, we can certainly agree. i don’t think Office software is dead, nor do i anticipate that it will – or should – stop innovating. it can, and will. i’ve argued elsewhere about the need for a better writing client.

my contention is rather that the suites themselves are likely to get less important, rather than more, over time. think of how much of the traditional office workload is now taking place in email, or IM, or on wikis. we just spend less time in Office suites than we used to, and i think that trend will if anything pick up speed. particularly as the clients get better.

a couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable that a web based email or CRM client would be usable for most needs. these days? not so farfetched.

By: Ian Skerrett

Ian Skerrett — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:51:08 +0000

Maybe not surprisingly I disagree with the notion of content creation via a web browser. I live in Outlook and Word. I curse everytime I have to use Wordpress to write my blog and I know Wordpress is probably the best blogging platform out there.

No doubt the web technology will improve but it has a long way to go but I am sure the desktop software will innovate in parallel.

By: Christopher Mahan

Christopher Mahan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:24:34 +0000

> Do Office and OpenOffice Matter?

I didn’t read anything else in the article, and that’s a comment in itself.

What I realized however is that so far this year I have used Open Office zero times and Office (Word) only one time, and only because I have a blank document set to landscape printing with .5 margins and 11×17 paper set up in the printer select thingy. I used it to print a diagram (in png, generated by Grafviz’s dot on Debian Sarge).

Ok, now I’ll read the article

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Article Feed » Do Office and OpenOffice Matter? — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:22:01 +0000

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