Vmware is also working more and more with open soruce.

Quality Control – Not.

So basically all Kudos to Ubuntu Linux (mostly) and some residuals with XP.

Open Office – it’s pretty good except that they do really dumb stuff like failing to “break” the links to images put into documents – so when the images are moved – the documents then lose the images – and the idiots thought that was a grand idea to make people have to go into drill down menus to manually break the links….

They finally got rid of that stupid idea.

And they are still playing with terds like not embedding fonts into documents – never mind that I own a couple of thousand of them – and you can buy CD’s with 10,000 fonts for $10 etc.

The gist of that is that when you produce documents and drawings with Open Office using ones own fonts – well they do not archive with the fonts, and the files are transportable to other machines – except instead of ones “Happy Beach” font in 250 point size – you get Arial 12 point….

It’s like, – “Thanks Idiot – I really needed that”.

So the OO crowd still do some really dumb shit…

And the embedding of images etc.. into text type documents – well Word 2000 does it way better than Open Office Write.

But the drawing package is brilliant.

All it needs is some air brushing tools and it’s basically an almost totally complete everything package.

I’d like to see it expanded to run NC machinery from – like tool and cutting paths etc., from drawings.

I’d also like to see it expanded in 3D capability.

I’d also like to see it start to take on the likes of Autocad in terms of engineering capabilities.

I’d also like to contribute to the development of these features – except after seeing how these “committee minded twats” ran with the idea of embedding ones OWN fonts into ones OWN art and text works, so I can work with them and forward them to others, but I can’t because the fonts cannot be embedded – I kind of thought “You people are just too stupid by half”….

So with Microsoft releasing more scamware, like selling Windows 07 (in 2010) for say $100 in the US and A, and then selling in all the other countries for say $200, and then blocking purchases of the product online – from the US and A to other countries by IP address and via proxy to the shipping address…

MS is Price Gouging – on their own products.

Good One Ballmer…..

So I don’t know – after seeing what really scummy stupid and outright dishonest management this company has, and what their shonky software has cost me over the years – I enjoy kicking Microsoft to the gutter, 1 cent at a time.

15 years in the industry and still out of it

And I love it

Wouldn’t change that for a second

Now I know you’re either full of it, or a computing newbie. I’ve been using MS Word since before there was a Windows version, and the Ribbon is the most evil thing that MS has ever visited upon us. I utterly despise it.

OOo does most of what I need, but if they were smart, they would have copied most of the keyboard shortcuts from MS Office. Two of my most used shortcuts CTRL-M and CTRL-T don’t work by default.

GreyGeek:
OOo may be highly configurable in connecting to databases, but the last time I tried Base it was a nightmare (admittedly, I haven’t tried again for two years).

At best Microsoft can keep people off of online office apps but not until they do a serious cut of their crown income source and lower their prices significantly. Therein lies the problem, Google dont need to have a revenue out of Google Apps while Microsoft has yet to find alternative sources of income except from office and operating systems.

VMware on the other hand is threatened by becoming a utility unless they sprint ahead of everything else pertaining virtualization and really start saving money for their costomers IRL and not just on paper.