Il 04:01, martedì 13 novembre 2001, Timothy R.Butler ha scritto:
Hi Jerry,
It can't be on office suites. I have several good ones and two excellent ones to choose from in Linux and essentially only one choice in WinXX. (Software 602 can't really count because it doesn't behave like Office. That's the problem when one says that LInux office packages don't count because they aren't like or compatible with Office - it eliminates all office packages on any platform.)
I wish I didn't have to disagree, but I would have to say Office is much better than our suites. Yeah, it crashes. Yeah, it has activation. But most importantly, yeah, it does everything most everyone needs to get stuff done. Corel Office probably had the best chance, but that is dead... StarOffice is getting there, but still lacks basics like grammar checking...
That's good! Maybe you find grammar checking useful because english has a quite simple grammar. I am italian, and M$ Word grammar checking has always been a nightmare. Completely unusable... I do not know who is the idiot who programmed that shit. It does not understand 95% italian grammar, and sometimes it wants to help you with style too. After grammar checking your document will look just like translated by altavista, or something weird like that. Grammar checking... go away! Praise