why do people pay $100 for Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows 7? (why not download free open office or libra?)?

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why do people pay $100 for Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows 7? (why not download free open office or libra?)?

Answer 1

Lots of trolling with these questions, for sure!



Vomit is right for everyone, not just business. OpenOffice/LibreOffice are feature sparse compared with Microsoft Office. Without getting into minor features, major features are absent or only minimally supported in OpenOffice/LibreOffice. While a full list of missing or poorly implemented features in OpenOffice/LibreOffice would take pages and pages and days to write, here are a bunch that come to mind that I use every day: SmartArt, Ribbon interface, programmable toolbars and menus, support for visual basic add-ins, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), chart styles, themes, most formatting features for fonts and objects, speed (especially when using Impress, which is a dog), AppleScript support, Automator support, Publishing Layout view in writer or Microsoft Publisher, Notebook layout view in Word or OneNote, Slicers, Spark lines, PowerPivot, sections in Impress, programmable animations, anything to do with Microsoft Access, web queries, Microsoft graph, organization charts, remove background tool, arrange objects, advanced typography. This list barely scratches the surface.



The Microsoft Windows operating system comes with a relatively simple word processor. Large, expensive to make programs like Microsoft Word are not free and have never been included with Microsoft Windows, because the are expensive to make, they're good, and there is a market for them. Word Pad is a light-duty word processor, not as good as OpenOffice or LibreOffice which have a lot more features and are free. But the gap between OpenOffice & LibreOffice and Microsoft Office is a huge one, which explains why people freely pay the price to get the good stuff.

Answer 2

While vomit is correct in business, the real reason is most people don't any different.

Most don't even know about WordPad, whit is built into the OS, and is good enough for a lot of people needs.

Answer 3

Hey there,

I downloaded LibreOffice for free here http://j.mp/1rmqZoX

It works very well.

Best

Answer 4

People buy MS Office because OpenOffice and LibreOffice are one and the same thing, and they both suck big time!!



They still need Java to run on, which makes everything slow up, and use all your system's resources.



WordPad is just a simply text editor with all the basic functions added.

Answer 5

because they are sheeple

Answer 6

Vomit, you are wrong. Show me one thing that Microsoft Office 2010 does and OpenOffice cannot do.



OpenOffice and LibreOffice will do exactly the same things that the $500 Microsoft Office 2010 Suite version for Windows 7 does or even better and they are absolutely free. I don't know how good they will work with Windows, since they are built by Linux developers as free Linux software. From what I hear, they work good in Windows too, but I never tried them myself in Windows.

Since I only use Linux, all my software is always free and usually better than any Windows counterpart.



So I guess people who pay for Microsoft Office 2010 are either ignorant or they are just used to pay for software. And by the way, the cheap and striped down Microsoft Office 2010 student version is $150, the complete Microsoft Office 2010 suite version is almost $500........



See here:



http://www2.buyoffice.microsoft.com/usa/?torb=3&WT.mc_id=%20ODC_ENUS_GenBuy_Control

Answer 7

Because Open Office and Libre Office do NOT do everything that MS Office does. They are still not completely compatible with the file formats. They still lack a lot of the tight integration MS has between Office apps (and, in some cases, Exchange). They don't have a support package on the level of Microsoft's, which makes a huge difference if you're a business. They're fine for some things, but they are NOT ready to replace MS Office. I seriously doubt you've ever worked in a business environment where they actually use the more advanced capabilities of the MS Office Suite.



And I don't know why you'd think XP came with Office. It never did. OEMs would often bundle Office with the computer, but XP didn't come with it.