Microsoft has announced that the Office 2010 suite, the latest in the long line of the popular word processing bundle, is now available online and in stores.
New to the 2010 version is the addition of Office Web apps, which are free for consumers to use online, allowing for saved files in the cloud as well as collaboration and sharing.
Says Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business ... [ read the full article ]
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you don't even need to install it.. I use oo on a stick at work every day.. because I make docs/presentations on linux at home and at work there are both xp and fista junkers which can't share the same M$ office made documents.. so I get the lovely duty of opening up the proprietary crap and saving it with oo so it can be used on the M$ machines..
just because schools are tied in by M$ trickery doesn't mean the students have to use M$ rubbish.. OO will produce things which will work on ALL versions of M$ office.. unlike M$ office.. hahahahaha
best advert for NEVER buying M$ office.. the new one won't open docs from the last one.. and vice versa..
Yeah...I can't imagine why anyone who had ever tried openoffice would want MS office...unless they were just so dense that they could not learn anything new, in which case office 2010 would be a bad option too.
BTW...while office 2010 is junk, I believe it will at least open old office docs...you might even be able to save to the old format if you select the format when you save.
Originally posted by bomber991: Student version, $149. It's too bad schools don't just use OpenOffice.
Schools get MS Office for much cheaper than that. Office standard for like $25/license and free take home work rights for staff.
If we wanted to have an office Suite with the power of MS Office 97 we would have never upgraded. Not to mention that we have to teach our students with the tools and software they will be using in the real world and colleges and businesses use MS Office.
I totally agree with bobiroc, we had OpenOffice for a while along with MS Office in one lab, but now the entire school is getting MS Office. OpenOffice is has disapeared completely, simply because we are taught in Business class with MS Office. Yeah it is over priced, but the UI and the capabilities are better.
