OT: Office XP Small Business

[Will]

Originally posted by JayBdey:
Why would you WANT Microsoft Office? Open Office is free and is less bloated.

http://www.openoffice.org/about.html

Because damn near everyone in the business world already has Microsoft Office, gets MS Office files from other people/divisions/companies/etc. and the support for the MS file formats were lacking Last time I checked Open Office (can open basic documents, but if you start to get freaky with the comments, track changes, columns, tables, etc, like most business people I've met like to do, Open Office chokes). Because there are a lot of people that are computer illiterate, and only understand MS Office because of a 20-hour certification class -- any other software, even if it does the same thing, will confuse these people. And because a lot of companies still don't trust free/open source software.

Open Office is doing a good job so far, but they're still going to be a niche application suite for the more technically-inclined in the near future.