can has shiny new laptop :)

[parallelgirl]

...and am installing programs, so wanted to ask the hive mind:

Poll Which would you choose?I am running Windows Vista Basic, if it makes a difference. I already have MS Office, but was wondering if Open Office, being more up to date might be better? Since I already have MS Office, I'm not bothered about avoiding Microsoft per se, just wondering which is the better suite of

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[calum]

MS Office 97 is so old now, I think you'd be better with OpenOffice. Its pretty good now, I use it on my low-spec machines, and it does fine.

Firefox is more mature than Google Chrome, which I find still a bit flakey. YOu can always install both though. I quite like Opera 10 too.

[parallelgirl]

Yeah, I was wondering if Open Office might be better on that basis.

Have been thinking to you in your travels and homecoming, and meaning to email you to say hello :) Hope you're settling back in ok and recovering from jet lag and things.

[calum]

:)

I'm recovered fine now, thanks. Been enjoying Puzzle's birthday weekend, then back to work on Monday

[poeticalpanther]

The only flaw I've found in Open Office, and for me it's a dealbreaker, is that their "comment" and "review" functions are...poorly implemented. Since those are the functions I use most, Open Office doesn't work for me, but as far as I'm aware, those are the only differences. If you don't use comment/review much, you're golden with OO.

[parallelgirl]

Ooh. I do use comment/review quite a lot, actually. Hmm, thanks for that. I've decided to give OO a try, and will see how it goes! Thanks for the heads-up!