Office Applications for Windows 7
Microsoft has announced the release of Office 2010 first quarter of next year available in both 32-bit and 64-bit; and I’m sure it will be a fine application suite; I’m sure it will also be expensive.
I tried Office 2007 when I first moved to Windows Vista, but I found it very difficult to figure out how to do even simple tasks; so I stuck with Office 2003.
Now I’m at the point that I’m reconsidering my needs in an office suite, and I’m finding that I really only use very basic features, and I value a consistent, simple interface over most anything else (well, that’s assuming that the software works).
A good friend of mine has been using OpenOffice for quite sometime now, and he’s been extremely happy with it.
I’d looked at OpenOffice a few years ago, but I’ve never really been a fan of any software written in Java that requires the JRE (I’ve always found it to be sluggish).
Nothing ventured, nothing gained as they say.
I downloaded OpenOffice (for Windows) and installed it on my work station.
My initial test was to open up some of the more complicated documents I had; not that I really have any documents that are that complicated. It worked, it worked well, and it was fast.
I played with it a little more, and then I decided to take a look at how much disk space it consumed… it was tiny compared to Office 2003.
Then I decide to create a few new documents and spreadsheets with it — no problem, it seemed to do everything I needed.
WOW.
I just don’t know what else to say… why would I pay Microsoft for a huge suite of office applications that I rarely use; and use only a small fraction of the features???
OpenOffice is available for a number of operating systems, and works fine on Windows 7.
A good way to save some money on your computer needs is switch over to OpenOffice when you upgrade to Windows 7.
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