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So what's the office suite of choice for these new Macs?

We'll see if our town decides to fund the tech refresh I blogged about last night. I think they just might, though, which means they all need to be installed and loaded up with software. Some of the software is easy: teachers have already identified their "killer apps"...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iWork, NeoOffice/J, Microsoft Office, Desktops, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-16

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OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant for Mac OS X users (previously, OpenOffice only worked within X11; While NeoOffice did a great job porting OO.org...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OO.org 3.0, OpenOffice, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...

Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losers

Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losersYou left out Apple as a choiceI think this will appeal more to the people who where allready going to purchase an Apple laptop then a less expensive Dell or HP.It may hurt Apple a bit in that the margins I would imagine, will...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., notebook, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homeworkVista needs a better UIBut I wouldn't know that personally as I have never used it and instead relied on the anecdotes of others (well I have fiddled with it in stores and found it was very different yet had no compelling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice

The more I use these, the more I really don't care for iWork. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice and OpenOffice for the matter cuts the mustard quite handily. For real polish, you still can't beat Office 2007/2008, as much as I hate to admit...

Tags: Suite, Apple iWork, Office 2008, NeoOffice, X11, OpenOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Reasons to buy a Mac

Reasons to buy a MacPerspective from iMac and Parallels owner1. If a business is supporting a Mac with Parallels environment, you're probably right. As long as the user doesn't have to support the updates and patches for the systems involved, you've increased the business support overhead without doing anything to...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, windows notebook, cheap windows notebook, Sun xVM, Mac Book, Apple Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

So about that Microsoft licensing

Anyone else licensed Microsoft software lately? I've been trying to avoid it. We already have some "Open Academic" licenses in place for the high school computer lab software (Office 2007) and for some Vista testing. Since we added "Software Assurance" we've been able to install Office 2008...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computer, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Will it work with Office?

Will it work with Office?Very little need for training with Open OfficeI think you can safely go for Open Office all the way. I think that only very little training will be needed. The user interface of Open Office has been designed to pose as small a barrier as possible,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Workforce management, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, training, OOo, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Will it work with Office?

Our business department purchased new books last summer to teach productivity software and accounting courses based around Microsoft Office. Most of the teachers, both in and out of the business department, have grown accustomed to Office 2007, although a significant chunk can at least use OpenOffice to open up...

Tags: Teacher, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-11

So what do teachers really want in a computer?

So what do teachers really want in a computer?Office...with the Linux and Windows systems it would probably be best to go with OpenOffice, as it can open .docx, odf, alongside .doc, and the Macs should have at least Neo/OpenOffice for odf and possibly iWork if the teacher requests it.following that,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

So what do teachers really want in a computer?

I handed out the following survey to the teachers in my school last week. Want to know what I found out? Let's just say they're a fairly heterogeneous group when it comes to their tech needs, wants, and opinions. As most of you know, all...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Teacher, Laptop Computer, Computer, ____Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-27

No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?

InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

(OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)

(OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)be very caefulI had a crash and had to reload my OS (Windows XP. That went okay, but I had no backup for Windows Offoice. I was on deadline so I downloaded had no backup for Office so I downloaded Open Office 2.3. When...

Tags: OpenOffice, OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta, OpenOffice.org 3.0, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, object-oriented

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta

First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 betaOLD NEWS: Don't expect OpenOffice to develop more perfect compatibilityI gave up on OpenOffice a long long time ago and I'm not surprised that the compatibility is still pitiful. OpenOffice's Presentation could never handle PowerPoint files properly. OpenOffice's Writer could handle simple documents,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned

OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedIt taught Microsoft that its days are numberedas an all powerful monopoly, and that it cannot just run roughshod wherever it likes without an equal and opposite reaction.It's taught us, the community, that maybe it's time to start lots of lobbying of our own. Perhaps lots...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Lessons Learned, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop

Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktopAll my apps are desktopHome apps:Tax software - desktopEmail Thunderbird- desktopGames - desktopOffice apps MS or OpenOffice - desktopWork Apps:Financial App - DesktopOffice App - desktopAll end user apps specific to our environment - desktopemail - desktopNumber of web based apps used in...

Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., desktop, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

News to know: Microsoft StartKey; SaaS; NeoOffice; Intel Atom; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft preps StartKey: A 'Windows companion' on a USB stick Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given. Dana Blankenhorn: The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO Ed Bott: A real-world Vista...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOfficeHave BothI have both and the short comings are slim but there are a few items that stand out for me. In iWorks there is not a way to use an external database like Filemaker--a user is limited to importing fields only from...

Tags: Apple iWork, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, NeoOffice

Discussion threads 2008-03-03