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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 13 August 2003, 00:59

Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 13 August 2003, 00:59
I'm asking just out of interest since it is MS we are talking about here.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: xyle_one on 13 August 2003, 01:36
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i have open office      ;)

[ August 12, 2003: Message edited by: ecsyle:951 ]

Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: jasonlane on 13 August 2003, 02:03
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open office  :D
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: gump420 on 13 August 2003, 03:47
not only a no, but a HELL NO

I downloaded the demo of Word for kicks.  Complete and total piece of fucking shit.  And the demo crashed like crazy.  Isn't a demo supposed to show off the strong points of the product or something like that?  Oh yeah, M$'s only strong point is crashing.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 13 August 2003, 04:15
Microsoft doesn't have to show off the fine points of anything anymore. People just fall in line like zombies now even if the products are utter shit.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: M51DPS on 13 August 2003, 05:57
My mom owns a pirated copy for OS X, I hate it. The day microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners. For me it's not only a no, but a hell no-you-stupid assholes-who-keep-trying-to-sell-me-shit-that-I-don't-need.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: dot.this on 14 August 2003, 11:14
No. I'm totally MS-free and intend to stay that way.

For Office apps, all I need are a text editor (Xnotes or Text Edit in Aqua, Nedit in X11) and a word processor (AbiWord, but KWrite is okay too). If I ever need a spreadsheet or database I'd use the KOffice ones.

I used AppleWorks in OS 9, but now that I know exactly what sort of apps I need, I have found free apps that work well for me.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: billy_gates on 14 August 2003, 11:37
I won't be "buying" it, if you know what I mean.

That means I will use my current copy duh... wut did u think i meant?

Seriously Open Office confuses me.  Generally the reason I don't use MS software is because of its terrible UI.  However, Open Office is just a horribly bad copy of Office?  I don't understand.  Does Open Office even run outside of X11 yet in OSX.

I find Word X to be perfectly satisfactory... and ultra compatible.  The Mac version of Office is waaay better.  If I write an "Englilsh" paper in Word X I get it done in about half of the time than if I used Word XP.  I also include Jeffrey "The Yellow Dart" Bergier in my document.  Word X has all sorts of features built into the window that in Word XP you have to go find in the menus, then you can't type while its open.  My favorite built in tool in Word X that is not built in in Word XP is word count.  Damn I love that thing just sitting at the bottom of my word document.  Telling me how I am getting ever closer to being finished with this damn essay

Just my 2
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: suselinux on 14 August 2003, 11:56
No one likes corel word perfect?
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: jasonlane on 14 August 2003, 19:27
quote:
Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
I won't be "buying" it, if you know what I mean.

That means I will use my current copy duh... wut did u think i meant?

Seriously Open Office confuses me.  Generally the reason I don't use MS software is because of its terrible UI.  However, Open Office is just a horribly bad copy of Office?  I don't understand.  Does Open Office even run outside of X11 yet in OSX.

Just my 2
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: M51DPS on 14 August 2003, 20:27
<slightly off topic>That was one of the funniest e-mails I've ever seen, with Kyle *The Yellow Dart* Smith.</slightly off topic>

Soon I'm going to help get OpenOffice on one of my friends laptops, a Mac. Does anyone know if it's very hard to get going?
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: billy_gates on 14 August 2003, 21:51
quote:
Originally posted by Zardoz:


Not yet, but Panther won't it run natively? hmmmm.

Anyway Open Office is good, just out of beta so some improvements are still needed. However it beats the shit out of Office 11 pseudo-xml, it on the other hand writes proper xml.


I found a good screenshot.... was gonna install it but it was a 120MB download.

http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/images/compare_ms_osx.png (http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/screenshots/images/compare_ms_osx.png)

now first off... see how MS Word is not AntiAliased... well normally it is... this is before apple updated the Carbon Anti Aliasing capability... this is OS X 10.1... way old.  Now you see Open Office, in panther it will look exactly like that except the window decoration will be the standard OSX window decoration.

I'm sorry, it would be an embarrassment to open something that ugly on my OSX system.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: jasonlane on 14 August 2003, 22:05
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Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:

I'm sorry, it would be an embarrassment to open something that ugly on my OSX system.



  :D      :D      :D  

 it works though.

[ August 14, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: billy_gates on 15 August 2003, 08:01
quote:
Originally posted by Zardoz:



   :D        :D        :D  

 it works though.

[ August 14, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]


thats not good enough for me.  For me to be happy it has to work Mac style.  Ultra Stable, Ultra Easy, Ultra Sexy (Pretty if you prefer the term), and depending on the App ultra compatible (office apps are one of those kinds of apps)
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: gump420 on 16 August 2003, 01:38
quote:
Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:


thats not good enough for me.  For me to be happy it has to work Mac style.  Ultra Stable, Ultra Easy, Ultra Sexy (Pretty if you prefer the term), and depending on the App ultra compatible (office apps are one of those kinds of apps)


I'm a Mac user myself, but all that just sounds Ultra Stupid . . .  (http://tongue.gif)

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: maghor ]

Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: Faust on 16 August 2003, 02:13
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ultra compatible

Yeah, those .doc documents are just so ultra compatible.  I guess I can't complain because I use Word when I have to use a public Mac anyway.  Open Office isn't installed and Apple Works is kinda...  crap.  But Open Office is still better than MS Office on any platform.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: gump420 on 16 August 2003, 06:29
quote:
Originally posted by Faust:

Yeah, those .doc documents are just so ultra compatible.  I guess I can't complain because I use Word when I have to use a public Mac anyway.  Open Office isn't installed and Apple Works is kinda...  crap.  But Open Office is still better than MS Office on any platform.


I think it's rather ironic that Apple is trying to push the Cocoa library down developers' throats, then uses Carbon to updated AppleWorks. (-;
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: hm_murdock on 16 August 2003, 06:40
OpenOffice looks right at home on Windows, which honestly is the platform it's targeted at... although you'd think they could update its appearance to at least look like XP.

I won't buy any version of office X. I forked over $225 for Office 2001 at the badass academic price when I was in college because I'm a badass motherfucker. I wanted to go to Redmond and ram a 25' pole up Bill's ass because 2001 isn't carbon. FUCKING FAGGOTS. But it works just fine in Classic, especially in Panther now that classic is PERFECTLY SEAMLESS.

I've got Orifice 2001 and Appleworks 6, which works for me. For about 99% of the things I type, TextEdit is the app of choice for me.

if I really wanted offence X, I'd bust out with some gnutella action, but then, I'd probably enjoy a bath in hot acid or lava more.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: magnehj on 25 August 2003, 19:55
I trashed I Explorer AND MS Office today !!!
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: Laukev7 on 26 August 2003, 01:23
quote:
Originally posted by macmagne:
I trashed I Explorer AND MS Office today !!!


That's great. Now you own a Mac AND are MS free. (I wish I could say the same about the former).

Anyway, welcome to the boards.
Title: Are any mac users here going to buy the new MS Office?
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 26 August 2003, 02:45
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