Open Office

March 7, 2006 on 8:24 pm | In Software, Tools |

So I got my new laptop last week, but I didn’t get a license for MS Office. That makes this laptop pretty much the first PC I’ve owned that doesn’t run Office. This laptop is currently running Open Office.

To buy a license for MS Office with my laptop was going to account for about 25% of the price, I don’t use MS Office enough to justify this. I don’t use Outlook or Powerpoint and rarely use Word. I generally only use Excel for building lists. In fact Access would be the only reason for me to buy MS Office and that’s only because I use it for fleshing out databases because I have found that it is great for this purpose. Also, part of my job for the last few years has been developing and supporting various Access applications. However, I’m now getting into using SQL Server Express for this.

The Open Office download was 93MB and the installation was really quick and easy and it all seems to work without any problems.

So will I ever buy a MS Office license? Probably not.

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