{"id":217,"date":"2005-05-06T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=217"},"modified":"2013-07-24T02:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:41:29","slug":"openoffice_beta_versus_microsoft_office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2005\/05\/openoffice_beta_versus_microsoft_office\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice beta versus Microsoft Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft beware! The new beta of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> has features to be a Microsoft Office killer. It opens and saves Microsoft Office documents flawlessly. It has the option to export to PDF, without a need  to buy extra software. It includes an Access-like database product BASE (Access is only available in bigger Office versions, or as a standalone product). Most of all: OpenOffice is free.<br \/>\nTrue, it lacks a good email program like Outlook, but if you can&#8217;t live without it, buy it seperately for about $110. Free OpenOffice + $110 &lt;&lt;&lt; MS Office Standard!<\/p>\n<p>Click on the title for a review of the new beta.<\/p>\n<p>As a sidenote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/home\/index.php\">OASIS<\/a> (an organisation defining\/approving e-business standards) has approved the OpenDocument format, a minor extension of the format OpenOffice 2.0 beta uses. The OpenDocument format will save you from the vendor lock-in, since you can switch Office applications without losing your documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft beware! The new beta of OpenOffice has features to be a Microsoft Office killer. It opens and saves Microsoft Office documents flawlessly. It has the option to export to PDF, without a need to buy extra software. It includes an Access-like database product BASE (Access is only available in bigger Office versions, or as <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2005\/05\/openoffice_beta_versus_microsoft_office\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-office-tools","category-45-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}