OpenSource saves the day
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Word, OpenOffice, OneCare, open source, Microsoft on
So, as Chris also discussed earlier today, Microsoft has decided to scrap OneCare, its subscription based anti-virus software. Well I for one won’t be weeping. Just recently, Microsoft decided to send me a copy of Equipt, its subscription based Home and Student package that bundles OneCare and Office at a reasonable price with a license for three PCs, which seems generous.
Now the laptop I have been supplied with here at Dennis Towers has Office 2003 on it, which is perfectly adequate, but having used Office 2007, I had a hankering to go back to it.
Bad idea. In fact, right now, I’m writing these words using OpenOffice Writer. The problem is that though I only wanted Word 2007, Equipt forces you to install the whole kit and caboodle, which includes OneCare, which I really didn’t need as all PCs at Dennis run F-Secure anti-virus, which seems to do its job perfectly fine. Having installed OneCare, my machine definately felt more sluggish, no doubt due to the overhead of having two pieces of AV software.
However, the bigger issue was Word as when it came to saving a file I received the message that,
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Loading ...Comment by - November 21, 2008 on 8:19 am
All I can say is “good for you” - go and convince the IT dep to save a shed load of money and move to Open Office and give you 10% of the savings! Personally I find Office 07 just too complicated for the everyday word processing tasks Open Office does everything you REALLY need.
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