Comments on: Goodbye Office 2007 and Good Riddance!

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:15:35 +0000

I can’t say that I’ve had any problems with the MS 2007(I use Outlook primarily) suite but I share your desire to not make them any wealthier. There is still one problem for me with the Thunderbird/Lightning set-up, and that is syncing to my PalmOS pda. Unfortunately this is a showstopper for me. I need that little device beeping at me from my shirt pocket. My “new technology” budget is pretty much non-existent so when offered the 2007 upgrade I had to jump on it. I guess I’ve been lucky because it’s behaving well on my 4 year old Dell PentiumM (768 mb ram)laptop. I look forward though to hearing about your experiences using the other software. I love OpenOffice and use it instead of Word/Excel/Access.

By: Susabelle

Susabelle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:01:04 +0000

Yeah! Come on over to the dark side, baby!! Thunderbird is amazing, I think you will love it. It allows you to set up each pop3 mail you are downloading to go into its own set of folders and subfolders; my Thunderbird currently downloads from 23 pop accounts and each one has its own folder in the left-hand side-bar, each one operates independently and that is GREAT for me. You will love it. It is easy to set up, easy to add pop accounts to, runs very tight and fast and clean, takes up VERY little space, and never bogs down the computer. I leave it running 24/7 on my laptop and I am also doing other things at the same time, including converting text to audio, burning CD's, etc. And my sad little Gateway Tablet (which I ADORE) is only a 1.7 ghz with 1 gb of ram. As for OpenOffice, I can say without any regrets that this is the most productive piece of word processing software I have ever used, and reminds me of WordPerfect before Microsoft took over the word processing market with their crappy bloated programs. And did you know that OO opens MSWorks (wps) files? Even Microsoft WORD won't open works files (even though they are a Microsoft product!!) Go Todd!!

By: harold

harold — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:36:47 +0000

It seems that the POP issue is addressed here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935400/ Since this is an upgrade and we haven't been presented with all of the specs and configs of each of the app's how do we know it is an Outlook issue, an antivirus issue, or a Outlook plugin issue. I found this MS article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226

By: ET

ET — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:00:40 +0000

Good choice Todd! It's about time that software companies learn that it's not necessary to keep adding features. The MS Office footprint is BIG! During the install process it should let you select the features you want and not install the rest. Thunderbird for the WIN. Aloha, ET