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> It's all market + legal now. And investing in re-schooling people to the new system and applications (Office suite would be probably the most notable one).
by rplnt 13y ago
> It's all market + legal now.
And investing in re-schooling people to the new system and applications (Office suite would be probably the most notable one).
- tankenmate 13y agoRetraining people to use LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) from Office 2007 is cheaper than training them to use Office 2013; the interfaces are almost identical. The municipality of Munich has proved this conclusively with their big roll out. The only true bugbear is porting Excel spreadsheets with VBA macros.
- crdoconnor 13y agoOffice is now easy to use on linux thanks to wine and crossover. Everything else works pretty much the same anyhow. There's a minor learning curve for learning how to install software. That's about it.
- EliRivers 13y agoA bit off-topic, I haven't been able to use a version of Office since they brought that ribbon thing in and moved the "Properties" menu option that used to be under "File". What year was that? 2003? I recall spending ages trying to figure out where on the hard drive the file actually was without having to go via "Save As" (used to be File->Properties, and there it is). I'm sure it's trivially easy, but that interface change effectively made Office a whole new program to learn for me, with the predictable result that since I now had to relearn how to use it, it was on a level playing field with other tools - one of which I switched to. While I'm only one data point, making me relearn the interface meant Office suddenly had to actually compete again. I also struggle to use any version of Windows beyond XP. I am a total cluster on Win 8 and it's quicker for me to find someone who can use it and get them to do it for me. The older I get, the more sure I becomes that there is no such thing as an intuitive interface; only convention.