I was using MSO 2003 when I started with OOo. I slowly went from using MSO to OOo as my default office package. Then I went to Ubuntu/Linux full time for my default desktop usage. So at that point I no longer had MSO as a backup, but I rarely used it anyways [once every three months or so]. When LO came out with its first non-RC download, I tried it and switched.
The process for using LO/AOO instead of MSO, for a Windows user, should be taken at a slow pace. When you find that you are hardly ever using MSO any more, that is the time to remove it from your computer.
Now, if MS would consider to create a version of MSO for Linux, then it would be an interesting move. I have been told that there is a version for Mac OSX. So, MS cannot fall back and say that they will not make a version for MSO on any non-MS OS.
One of the key features of LO is the fact that it has a version for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. In the foreseeable future, a version of LO will be on tablets and one on the Cloud. It is now on the new Raspberry Pi system that has now well over 500,000 units sold.
Now MS claims that you can use its MSO directly on your PC, Phone, and Tablet, outside of using their Cloud version. My smart phone cannot use MSO, any version/type, on it. Same goes for my tablet. I have tried to find an "office" package for my tablet when I first got it. No luck even to get Cloud packages to work.
On 01/01/2013 05:06 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) +1 Plus i personally tend to feel that winning users from OpenOffice is a very short-term win. It's very easy to switch between AOO and LO and back again both as a product and as a member of a community. Much the same with any of the OpenSource products and even freeware. Most of those have been migrating to LO anyway just because it's a better product. The real longer-term wins are people that are still only using MS Office and so are not used to being part of a community. People that do take the 1st step in migrating away from MSO by having LO (or other) alongside their existing MSO will tend to drift comfortably towards using LO more and more. Just my own thoughts and i am not even a member of TDF or anything. Regards from Tom :)
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