Why Microsoft: Microsoft Word vs OpenOffice.org Writer

[stevoisgod123]

Seriously Microsoft? Hatin on freeware Just because it's free? My bad you missed out on a couple bucks in your pocket...>.>

[crsmelee]

This video shows that MS Office is usually for people who don't have a lot of time on their hands.

[davidthmovies]

Ok guys, OpenOffice/LibreOffice is free and great for writing a letter once in a while.

For whoever really wants to work and needs a serious office suite, there's just no alternative to Microsoft.

I've used OpenOffice at work for years, now we got Office 2010 and there's just no comparison. I also got it for my pc at home and would pay five times the price I did without hesistation.

[stevoisgod123]

@davidthmovies Congrats! You are exactly the type of yuppie bitch Microsoft loves.

[davidthmovies]

@stevoisgod123 Sure, they love me for using Office.

And I love them for making my office work bearable...

[MrSlm1982]

So Microsoft says for just a few dollars more I can get pretty colors, and one less click. and ms office saves me the haste of being able to write in pdf. ms office also saves me from the harddrive space i don't care about, ms office also takes away the intuitive nature of a functional office program.... yeah. bill gates can keep ms office, and i'll keep my money.

[AndyVVIP]

Open Office = best of best of price.

MS Office = too expensive, too many option that are even using it, only one way design of price...

[OdessaSilver]

@AndyVVIP What the fuck are you talking about? You can get MS Office Family Edition (3 licenses) for ~100 EUR. That's like 33 EUR per license and you get Excel, Word, Powerpoint and One Note. That thing that 90% of all home users will ever need.

True, Outlook & Access is missing. Later one is one of the crappier products I never liked and Outlook is great tool, but has it's price.

[unitychicken]

That was very good useful info

[13jonny89]

Not convinced. Just details. And still Open Office, is free of charge for the end user.

[MrAllanmitch]

I would hope that MS Word would have the edge. After all I'm paying through the nose for MS Word, so I would expect something a little more than a product for free. But given the function/usability/cost consideration, I'll take OpenOffice/LibreOffice any day over M$ Word.

[fishrule1942]

I used Openoffice extensively when I was a poor college student. I now use Microsoft Office and there is NO comparison. Microsoft Office is superior in every way imaginable.

[qqleq2]

@fishrule1942 I agree. But I'm not an average user.

[Coi1221]

@fishrule1942 Totally agree, but the main problem is childish ignorance and how cool it is to bash M$ :/

[thebloxxeronroblox]

LOL i can get a netbook for the cost of office Professional

[tuby676]

Word is just so much better

[ShelLuser]

Comparisons like these are kind of silly, esp. when coming from MS. However, I do think they're right on some parts. OpenOffice is fine if all you need is a regular editor or spreadsheet. But the moment when you actually start to do Office related tasks it gets different. Try linking files together or to automate stuff using macro's. Heck; try collecting data like text snippets from webpages (yellow note). What you may save in money you'll end up paying in time invested. IMO that is.

[amigator]

I really liked using MS Office to the versions XP (2002) - 2003 where they used classic menu and little icons interface. Versions 2007 and 2010 are unusable for me because of ribbon, I just can't stand this sh*t. It's the only thing why I'm now using Open Office with standard old school gui, I don't have so much time to constantly search for something at that ribbon madness.

[henroguy]

i use both. The only real advantage of word is smartart and the way you can preview everything. if you don't need that, go for openoffice.

[viv861982]

MS office just sits there on my PC and I use it once in a while to read a doc or view a spread sheet or a presentation...All this I can do with Open Office and that too for FREE.

Why should I have to pay for 99.5 % of useless features.

I haven't come across anyone who intensively uses the features provided in MS Office.

[theking0fnowhere]

Wow. This backfired. That find feature in Office is terrible. ALSO: Microsoft Office's "grammar" check is atrocious.

[alfyt01]

In this world, for every thing you should pay money. If the Microsoft office package was the only software, I will buy that. But, how many commercial software should one buy to do what business companies, Universities or state organisation impose to individuals. I rather prefer to spend more time with shortages of Openoffice, and hopping it's problems to be resolved in the future.

[Solado]

Most people dont care about docuent styles, themes and colours.

People want to type a simple note, possable bullet points / headers -Thats what 95% of people use it for.

Office = £100+

OpenOffice = Free.

OpenOffice does everything the "average" user needs.

[BBJvideo]

Here is something to consider..

MS Office 2010: publisher, word, access, powerpoint, and excel - $500

OOo 3.3: draw, writer, base, impress, and calc - free

and OOo contains a formula editor which MS Office does not have

Not to mention how compatible OOo is with MS Office. You do the math.

[ChrisTheRollinson]

If you could get office for ubuntu without having to use wine some more people might actually use office

[JlGold13a]

OpenOffice is free but is buggy.

[waypx86]

WOW!... I have been blind but my eyes are open! Now I want to pay all them moneys for word finders and all-powerful spellchecker!!!

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[JohnZero42]

Microsoft Office Professional:

Suggested retail price: $499.99

OpenOffice/LibreOffice: $0

10 pieces of Microsoft Office Professional for an SMB: $4999

10 pieces of OpenOffice: $0

Familiar, standard menu and toolbar system: OpenOffice

Experimental ribbon technology that requires additional training costs: Microsoft Office

[JustinianLXXXII]

Hey Jake, I think most of the people here disagree with you. Oh and your wonderful zinger about the email bit; we'll just use Google Doc if it's really an issue. Don't you just love it when other companies eat away at what you assumed was a solid hold on the market?

[kurrator2]

Open Office = world standard. MS Office = crap. watch?v=v895Th7LxWU

[JWK35]

so what have we learned here? if you need a simple word processing program, just to write letters or any other day to day word type document (ie typical home use) get open office!

if you need a program that makes it look better and has more functions e.c.t. and you use it for your job, get MS office!

simple!

[Triundi]

It's funny because I hate having to use OpenOffice, and would much rather have the simplicity of Word. Prime example: in word, Ctrl-Q aligns left to complement Ctrl-E and Ctrl-R. Ctrl-W closes a tab as has come to be expected from the command. In OO, however, no matter how many times I change the hotkey, both Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-W close the project. Why would I need two commands right next to each other that do the same thing?

[gleechuy]

Both are very good products but their learning curve is terrifying. They require a lot of remembering about where the menu items are - frighteningly intimidating - especially if one is in a hurry.

I propose that they come up with a product that has its menus miles ahead in simplicity by grouping them logically.

Like, grouping margins, line spacing and paper size in one menu then insertions of graphics in another. Tables and columns ...

But they come with customizable menus - a pain to do.

[TecnoNewsX]

Holly es una pobre tonta retrasada mental que necesita que le digan todo y Dave se toma el tiempo para hacer un trabajo presentable!

[pedroamaralcouto]

LOL, is this just a channel for propaganda? I guess "Dave" is just a MS puppet. My father uses Windows and was used to Word, but he doesn't like it and likes to use Open Office instead. Word interface is complicated with many features, specially with that gibbon thing. It tries to implement too many things in one place (KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid!). So you can't replace the spell checker and it does not use an external graphics application - ever heard about bloating and decoupling?

[estiej]

Just one more thing that baffles me. Why is Microsoft using a free service like Youtube to criticize free software. Surely they can create a paid version of sharing videos.

People who prefer OpenOffice don't have a vested interest in promoting it. I just use it often and I'm happy with what I get. I'm not sure the same can be said of those who attack it and promote MS here.

[ShwangShwing]

@estiej It's to be expected that a company will promote its own product. What will be strange will be a company promoting its competitor.

[effiewu333]

Microsoft is a sore loser :)

[A135S4656]

OpenOffice and Microsoft Office are both awesome. I have MS Office on one computer, and OpenOffice on two other computers... one of them is NeoOffice. Microsoft Office 2007, I got used to it and think it's pretty kewl. However, it should be $10.

OpenOffice is free. Sure there's maybe one or two bugs here and there, but it's free.

OOo isn't as compatible and can't save as docx, pptx, xlsx. So? There's doc, ppt, xls.

They both do basically the exact same thing for different prices.

[jvarela965]

The difference between MS Office and Open Office is the same difference between a Corvette and a Porsche. Yes the Porsche is a wee bit better but the Corvette costs half. The least costly MS Office 2010 is $140. Open Office is free.

[bullettotheboard]

i actually prefer Openoffice.

it does what i need and it can read docx and doc, no need to spend antother 100 or more just for incompatibility.

[Luxverus]

Missed 1 big detail in sharing the file... if you are not attentive MS office saves files in their obscure format, that no one that uses a differente computer or OS can open (well sort of), there goes your "sharing".. (off course i know this is intentional, to force the un-interoperability, but thats just a BIG FAIL)

[youwatts]

IMO most people want Openoffice because it's free and it doesn't the ribbon UI. Someone suggested i download Openoffice. I installed it within about a month because it didn't have the ribbon and stuck with office 2007. I agree with the people who say make Msoffice more affordable, Someone shouldn't have to pay over $150 for one product of Office (word, powerpoint, excel separately)

[DeDyson]

Someone should make a video response to this, as I believe it will be an easy argument for OO to win.

[drVitall]

yeah, whatever most are saying - OO is FREE. Problem that OpenOffice ultimately inferior in comparison to Microsoft Office. The other alternatives, like Google Docs also not even close to MS product. Hope LibreOffice will try to be dynamic and feature reach and user friendly. Or Google Docs start to catch up. Or ZOHO. Competition is good for consumers.

But for now, if you want best product to use, your choice is very simple...

[edyel190]

@21awp plus one!!!

[JonLin95]

The creation of the features that MS Office has is pretty impressive, but that's all they waste their time on. I will most likely never in my entire life use any of those features. OpenOffice uses the same generic layout, all of the NEEDED functions to document editing software, and it's FREE. MS basically just works on flashy features, for outrageous prices. OpenOffice is FREE and contains virtually anything you need for home projects as to text editing, spreadsheets, etc.

[1ukyMan]

micro$oft office is not free, openoffice is free, if micro$oft office is not free, people search for micro$oft office pirate.

Sotware LIVE FREE!

[hpbenton]

Grammer check in M$ office.... umm never trust it

Place content where I want ... well anyone who uses M$ word knows this isn't true - (neither does OOo to be fair, look at LaTeX)

upload to M$ microdrive.... umm everyone has to have an account, hands up those that do, hands up those that have a gmail account and could use Google Docs?

[MidnightTortoise]

Unfortunately I have to agree with the Microsoft man on this one - MSOffice is way ahead of OOo. I think the whole Outlook/sharepoint/cloud thing was a bit of a daft point though as this could have been done using Google docs. Remember that there are other office apps to try too, such as Softmaker office and the web-based Zoho suite.

[BigBobsh2o]

The most compelling part of this video was the e-mail collaboration part.

Other than that OO can do things just fine. Sure you may have to click the mouse a few more times but it's free.

Secondly MS Office has a new version every three to four years. So you have to drop like $150 every four years. Or if you just want MS Word it's still like $140.

The cost of ownership is fairly high. I really wish they would have skipped Office 2007 and just integrated everything with 2010.

[NDSCollector]

MS should use the money to emprove their broken OS instead of making these dumb videos. OO.org is so much better

[conyo985]

Oh pretty documents doesn't make a better program. This is pure propaganda.

[Fallhearst]

HI BILL GATES HERE FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE

THE FAST AND EASY WAY TO EDIT YOUR WORD DOCUMENTS

USING OPENOFFICE IS A CHORE

WORD PROCESSING SHOULDN'T BE A BORE

[VazhaNAT]

I use both, MS word an OO writer,

every new version of MS word gets more sluggish and annoying, I can say , OO Writer is faster and better, nobody needs all this fancy looking crap, only offices that HAVE TO USE Microsoft office are using it

[TonyLechner]

Being both a student and an intern, well..

.......who am I kidding, why bother writing anything? You can't even compare Word to OO.org Writer.

Writer is garbage. It's like I went back to WordPerfect for DOS

Microsoft is leading the charge in innovation in the Office. Deal with it, nerds.

[DocterSorcerer]

@TonyLechner Their innovation disregards standards for interface design that have been around for decades in favor of a quasi-ergonomic "task-based" interface that has little to no connective tissue with what people (as in ordinary people who don't hack into NORAD databases but are used to computers BEING A CERTAIN WAY) are used to. The interface also compartmentalizes commands to the point that it takes 5 times as long to find a command's location. I'm a DESIGNER.

[AtheismandSkepticism]

OH GOD, I HAVE TO OPEN DIFFERENT LOOKING MENUS AND DOWNLOAD A FREE 36KB PLUG-IN TO GET THE SAME FUNCTIONALITY.

THIS MAKES MS OFFICE TOTALLY WORTH $300, LOL!

wake up, MS, I can't believe you made this with a serious look on your face.

[ppeterish]

I'm using MS Office at work, and I'd dearly miss several of the features it offers. It makes me indeed more productive, though by far not to the degree MS would like people to believe.

Yet at home, it's completely different. OpenOffice offers everything I need here, and it's free. At home I don't even have the opportunity to use the features I'd miss at work without MS Office. So the 60-days test version of MS Office was actually the first piece of crapware I've deleted from my new machine.

[thljcl]

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[Zeperus05]

People who use Open Office don't wan't MS Office because it is TOO Expensive..

Open Office = Home User

MS Office = Buisness User

(I am German and Amerikan but I live in Germany and go to a German School)

[saulomess]

Why should I get interested in spending money just for doing ridiculous makeup of the documents?

[saulomess]

Dirty politics of anti-marketing that they adopt. tsk tsk tsk

Sign of desperation in the business.

[TheRizki23]

I like OpenOffice more than Word cause

1. Its free

2.Its fast

3.Its Simple !!!

And i want office become FREE !!!

[jp235]

So for the sake of a fancier GUI and some features I'll never use, I should pay £272 (Amazon UK pro edition)for MS Office, which doesn't run on Linux, and will give me endless license issues next time I buy a new PC?

Come on, for that kind of money, MS Office damn well SHOULD be better than freeware! But the fact is that OpenOffice has all the features that 99% of users need. It's superb!

This video make me respect MS a lot less

[feud0r]

Раздражает эта глупая "социальная" реклама. Все равно что сравнить частную коллекцию с национальным(общественным) достоянием. Выпендреж, и только!

[newecreator]

@feud0r I agree! (I translated your text so I can understand it.)

[tennisfreak312]

what is microsoft planning btw? these videos are lame!!

P/S: the click counter is the worst

[znuxor]

Top 5 reasons to use Open Office:

1: It is free!

2: Cross-Platform, you can use it on a lot of Operating System.

3: Open-Source so we can verify if there is a mind control virus. (half-kidding)

4: Made for a lot more than just writing documents.

5:No need to buy a new program because of a file format incompatibility like we see with Microsoft Word.

[javiercmh]

lol, they are using Firefox, instead of Micro$oft Internet Explorer 8.

maybe firefox is better ...

[Porto143]

epic fail all these new commercials

[AMonteverdi]

i prefer Google wave...

[CAJAX1]

The only good point is better spell checking. Bells and whistles for diagrams doesn't worth that moneys, newer.

[lurynowicz]

Microsoft, you are absolutelly right! I could dislocate my finger by clicking on and on. I would rather save my money on comparable software and go to theatre or gym more often.

[switchau]

Poor move on behalf of Microsoft. Hey! Let's talk about creating maths/physics equations in Microsoft Office and Open Office...

OO has a sudo language for creating equations, if you need to create physics paper where page after page are equations it will take forever for MicroshitOffice and about 1/10 time in OO.

Microdick office sucks badly when formating paragraphs, it knows better than you how a paragraph should looks like etc...

[estiej]

Microsoft Office - about 200 dollars

OpenOffice - free!

[ferminnajar]

@estiej Free does not necessary means good

[ferminnajar]

@estiej Free does not necessary means good

[estiej]

@ferminnajar - you are absolutely right. Look at Microsoft Internet Explorer, free but shitty ;)

Of course free doesn't necessarily means it's good. Neither does it mean it's bad. Neither does overpriced and bloated software. Your remark is both truistic and completely meaningless.

Openoffice does what is says on the tin and its GUI, features, and compatibility will satisfy most users of Microsoft Office at the same time saving them a few hundred bucks.

[darkkirche]

@estiej

OO - Perfect at elementary school works

MSO - Perfect for REAL works, included high level students.

[estiej]

@darkkirche Real works, my ass. Most documents written in a word processor are an elementary stuff and OpenOffice is more than capable of dealing with virtually anything you throw at it . If you need something more advanced you'd be better off with LaTex (also free) and don't bother with MS Word.

[xxEuphie]

@darkkirche

Wanna know something? REAL works are done on Openoffice. Because if you can only make elementary stuff, you wouldn't be smart enough to know the awesomeness of Openoffice.

This video takes out everything good about Openoffice. Its too bias.

[correodefelipe]

@estiej , OOffice is not only free but really valuable because you can do with it wathever you want and rely on a huge community rather than in a irrational enterprise.

[honussa]

@estiej Have you ever worked in a company? Or in a team? Microsoft office is for businesses and schools. Not for people bullshiting around with badly programmed software just because it is free and just because they have time that they rather spend on crap instead their family. Buy the home and business version and you're good to go.

It's like saying the Audi A8 is shit and going for a bike instead. Bullshit!

[estiej]

@honussa To answer your question, yes, I have and I used to use MS Office,too. It was a few years ago and I found it not without problems and extremely irritating at times. If you looked at the underlying code the actual text and the real formatting constituted only a few percent of the file, the rest was filled with MS junk formatting that could be safely removed by hand with no adverse effects. I have never looked back since moving to OOo.

[estiej]

BTW, like most people I used a word processor to prepare documents and print them out. MS's 'intelligent' formatting is extremely counter-productive. You can spend hours trying to regain control over an element you want to position somewhere and MS wants to put it someplace else. You don't need team capabilities for that. I also use OOo to collaborate on a text, insert corrections and keep track of the changes. No problem here.

[estiej]

@honussa Next, you allege that OOo is a 'badly programmed software'. I think it is you who is bullshitting, so better come up with some facts behind your words. Remember you are talking about a product developed by hundreds of programmers with the backing of Oracle. Meanwhile I prefer to spend 200 dollars on my family and I think they do too.

[estiej]

@honussa Finally you make a false analogy. I definitely didn't say that MS office is shit and I don't think many people think so. I'm saying that MS Office is bloated, overpriced and not without problems, just like Audi A8. OpenOffice is certainly not a bike in comparison. It's like a decent Ford Focus for free. Would you say no to that?

[MAXLD]

This only proves that OpenOffice is already very popular. OpenSource FTW!

The data is the important thing on a document, not the flowers and landscapes you put around it.

2000's M$ strategy of young kids mind control is falling apart, now they try other methods.

"I pity the fools!"

[ojay2001]

Here's the deal:

1. keep your software affordable for the average guy

2. stop, for god's sake, changing your GUIs with every version!

3. focus on code quality and speed. Not features.

4. just because it's preinstalled on everything doesn't mean people want it. They are just too lazy to get rid of it. I know nobody who actually WANTS MS Office! Most of them HAVE TO use it.

5. Make installing your stuff easy and trust your legal customers.

Just my 2-5 cents...

[PawelKarpinski]

I couldn't agree more.

[rsa8665]

@ojay2001 well when it comes to professional use I have to say, Open office is BS! seriously, for me working with open office was a total headache. there is too much clicking that gives u a large chance for having error.

[tchuddi]

Man, what cost OpenOffice? NOTHING

what cost MSOffice?few hundred bucks

why MS office doesnt support his own ISO open document format well? its using pre ISO version

MSOffice is crap. cometimes i am forced to work with this crap and it always make me crazy. i wish i never ever have to work with that crap.

[flootedbeam]

What do i miss when I choose open office? Hmmm? What do I miss when I choose MS word? Couple hundred bucks!

[somethings90]

@flootedbeam

I miss Clippy. :(

[newecreator]

@somethings90 I don't know Clippy until I used our school's computer using Office 2000.

[Mojojoba]

He forgot to mention that with new features in MS office, it becomes more expensive while our friends Openoffice will and always be: free! As for the technical thing, just wait a while, Openoffice will get there, sooner or later.

[cvsinpa]

ooh... emailing a file... how difficult....

[cvsinpa]

how hard is it to download an extra addon to check grammar?

and it's great how they take a picture of a guy barely smiling, gray out pictures, refuse to add color (which doesn't require "switching between screens"), and change windows's color scheme to "vista basic" for the open office user.

[dispolokMRR]

łord - do zabicia komara nie potrzebuje armaty :)))

[theobesomorbido]

This is by far the most awful way o doing bussines.. Shame on you Microsoft....

[mayorjj]

Who care???? Who use that tools??? 30 people in the planet???? Shame on you Microsoft

[jmtapia]

microsoft here is a little tip, 90% of the users of Word only uses like 20% of the functions of word, in my case i use like 10% of the functions of word, for that i prefer open office writer, it has the functions i need and is much more light and faster than word

[GThreepbrush]

LaTeX anyone?

[brianguetta]

Microsoft compares their Office with a Free Open-Source Solution :) They don't dare to compare Office with Apple's iWork *LOL*

[Sylanael]

@brianguetta Lotus, Zoho ? those also they wont compare ^^

[Woegjiub]

Funny thing: Google wave allows better collaboration than office :p

[Sinani201]

Dave has the edge over Holly because he uses an open-source and free word processor that has downloading extensions. He also doesn't have to waste $1000 and 10 minutes of his time setting up the program.

Office sucks.