Thursday, January 31, 2008

Re: Vista & Office 2007 on new student laptops

OpenOffice also fits nicely into our, "you must master three OSs"
education plan as well.

Greg
On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Tim Cooper wrote:

> OpenOffice and its mac cousin NeoOffice are amazing alternatives to
> Microsoft Office 2003/4/7/8 and both can be set to open and save in
> Word
> format to be compatible with the MS Office that people have at home
> (including docx). Why spend the money for an inferior product?
> OpenOffice is an open source collaboration of business and
> universities to
> provide a viable, reliable product for no cost to the public. Doesn't
> this reflect the values we want to instill in our students? Abiword
> is
> also a good open source word processor, but OpenOffice is a true
> office
> replacement (it even has its own drawing program).
>
> Dump MS Office for OpenOffice.
>
> Tim Cooper
> LREI - Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin HS
> 40 Charlton St.
> New York, NY 10014
> 212.477.5316 ext 364
> tcooper@lrei.org
>
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