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Submission + - What's your preferred Office Suite?

dawning writes: Since 1998 I've used LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice, formerly StarOffice) to meet my Word Processing & Spreadsheet needs. MS Office has a rich feature set, but the price is nothing short of robbery for the typical user (if you're in to Macros, Access and so on, then yeah, MS Office FTW).

Now with Google Docs very well established & freely providing outstanding extras (such as brilliant collaboration tools, web app deployment & cloud storage), I'm more baffled than ever by how many seem desperately married to the first way they learned to do things. It seems people are violently opposed to new ideas. I even recall olympic swimming pools-of-tears when Microsoft innovated with their 2007 UI.

Tell me Slashdoters, why do people hate change more than saving money or improving productivity? Am I (and mine) some sort of freak-human for even caring that other's continue to pay for a "solved" piece of software? Or am I missing something?

What is your Word Processor/Spreadsheet suite of choice?

Comment Re:Vectrex (Score 3, Insightful) 492

No, to you they were just pointless frustration. For some it was a great challenge that, if the game was solid, made you want to play longer, get better and beat the game. Something that because of the difficulty was actually an accomplishment that was "cool" to use lingo from back in the day. It was actually something that a small percentage of those who owned the game had been able to do. Unlike today where if someone says, hey I beat blahblah, 90% or more of those who played or owned the game say yeah, me too. I completely agree that there are many things we have gotten away from in games because they are outdated, etc. However I completely disagree that is the case with difficulty, especially in certain genres of games.

Comment Re:Oh, like my mother (Score 3, Insightful) 780

There are always exceptions to the rule. Notice in the summary it says "iPad owners tend to be...", not "All iPad owners...". Either way it is simply a study. Why are so many getting their panties in a bunch? Are people feeling guilty that they might actually fit this general profile of an iPad owner?

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