On 13-03-06, at 19:10 , Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Donald Harbison >> <dpharbi...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> >> wrote: >>> Well, if you read the latest MS-Office review in today's NYT[1] you'll >> see >>> the focus mostly on the new pricing. Then at the summary the author >> brings >>> up the fact that you don't need to buy it, just grab OpenOffice. >>> >>> Great mention! Onward to 100M.... >>> >>> "Office is still enormous, complex and sprawling. It’s still about 47,000 >>> times more software than anybody really needs. And you can still manage >>> perfectly well without it; Google and >>> OpenOffice.org<http://openoffice.org/> still >>> offer free equivalents of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They’re not >> anywhere >>> near as refined or feature-packed as Office 2013, but they get the job >>> done, and they make collaboration easy." >>> >> >> Can you reach out and correct him on the name? The NYT should want to >> get these things right. > > > Yes, I plan to. Who knows maybe he wants to do a follow up. if it helps, Pogue I think I'v corresponded with Pogue before, on OO.o—which is probably why he, or at any rate, his proofer, used "OpenOffice.org" and not The Official Name. cheers louis > > >> >> -Rob >> >>> [1] >>> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/personaltech/pogue-microsoft-office-365.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&hp >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org<javascript:;> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org<javascript:;> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
