MS Office 12

[benjo plz.]

Meh, stick with 2003 tbh.

 

[Atomic]

I prefer Open Office. Sure Office looks better, but there's nothing in it that will be of use to me that's not in Open Office.

 

[Xee]

I think its a good improvement. Old 2003 UI was ugly!

But they could still do a lot better

 

[Haircut]

I prefer Open Office. Sure Office looks better, but there's nothing in it that will be of use to me that's not in Open Office.

Does Open Office have scripting like MS Office? Being able to write custom functions in Excel is a godsend in my book.

Also does it expose as rich an API as MS Office (not trying to slate Open Office here, genuinely curious!) as Office automation is another feature that for me as a developer sets MS Office apart from the competition.

 

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A bit more information on press releases which i didn't get round to posting yesterday are found at - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2007office/default.mspx

 

[afraser2k]

Does Open Office have scripting like MS Office? Being able to write custom functions in Excel is a godsend in my book.

Also does it expose as rich an API as MS Office (not trying to slate Open Office here, genuinely curious!) as Office automation is another feature that for me as a developer sets MS Office apart from the competition.

At the moment OpenOffice does everything I want to do at home, which is basic word processing, etc. Office certainly has it's place but I couldn't justify the expense of it as a home user with day-to-day tasks.

 

[Atomic]

Does Open Office have scripting like MS Office? Being able to write custom functions in Excel is a godsend in my book.

Also does it expose as rich an API as MS Office (not trying to slate Open Office here, genuinely curious!) as Office automation is another feature that for me as a developer sets MS Office apart from the competition.

I don't need any of those things and happy with Open Office. Does everything I need, so why pay hundreads of £ for functions that will be useless to me.

 

[Haircut]

I don't need any of those things and happy with Open Office. Does everything I need, so why pay hundreads of £ for functions that will be useless to me.

Fair enough, I was just curious what Open Office provided.
For me as someone whose career it is to develop Windows applications those sorts of things are very handy.

One thing I had heard about in Open Office is that it may soon be able to save direct to XSL-FO. If you can effectively have a free WYSIWYG XSL-FO editor then that would be very cool.

The cost isn't so bad since I get an MSDN subscription through work and get all kinds of things to play about with

Back on topic Office 12 looks like it's going to be a hell of a product. MS are definitely going the right way with this and Vista.

 

[tmileson]

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