Posts by patch67

Re: Which part of free is not-free?

Moved users away from Outlook to Google Docs for Education.

No complaints, Google calendar is way better.

Moved users away from IE to choice of Firefox or Chrome user choice no complaints.

Users are more savvy than they used to e switching between Iphones, Andoids and Windows they've got used to being adaptable.

Not sure if they'll all go for LibreOffice but it certainly play a role in my org. I refuse to pay MS £12,000 every 5 years for Office.

Microsoft just raised prices in UK by 20% separate to UK pound falling by 20%.

Government seriously needs to save money and MS Office is not the only show in town.

Massive price hikes vs free.

LibreOffice gets more attractive by the day.

Re: Cue all the usual stuff about incompatibility etc

That's the point of the gov adopting ODF as the standard it pushed suppliers to consider ODF rather than DOC. Anyone vying for gov contracts will have to make OCT stuff that works with ODF.

MS is so dominant it will take a government to break that monopoly and a move such as this will hurt Microsoft.

Re: Cue all the usual stuff about incompatibility etc

I have 300 users I don't think any of them have ever made a Macro.

Microsoft Macros in Outlook introduced the world the computer virus well done for that.