Open office vs Microsoft Office

Gao YuanLiu Huiyan

Zhou Tianyu

Agenda

• Objective of the project• Comparison of the two software• Conclusion

Objective of the project

• Compare Open office 3.2.0 and Microsoft office 2007 microsoft word vs open office writer Microsoft powerpoint vs open office impressMicrosoft excel vs open office calc

• Why open office is not so prevalent?

Why open office is better than ms office

• http://releasenotes.org/node/10

• Open office 3.2.0• Microsoft office 2007

Comparison of the two software

• Memory usage• Compatibility• User interface

Calc vs Excel

• Drag multiple cells• Overwrite cells• Delete multiple cells• Series handling• Drag pictures• File format saving• Professional statistic analysis: functions

Impress vs powerpoint

• Slow response speed for open office • Design of format, background, etc• Export to flash• Add music to the show?• Impress is constantly making bugs?• Show charts, tables in open office impress?

Writer vs word

• Save as PDF function

Office suites history

Market share analysis

The market share of Microsoft office is growing at a tremendous speed Although open office come out before ms office the market share of it grows very slowly

• showed a wide range of adoption in different countries

• 0.2% in China• 9% in the US and the UK • over 20% in Poland, the Czech Republic and

Germany

Why is open office not as popular as ms office?

• Network effect• Through word-of-mouth effect• People may not understand the benefit of

open source • People do not trust the reliability of open

source software

• People generally do not understand the benefit of open source

• Piracy makes ms office free as well

What can open office do to improve?

Conclusion

Other issues

• The layout and the designs of open office is exactly very similar to ms office: copyright issues?

Compatibility issues

• I was working on a document with a number of colleagues who were using the track changes functionality in MS office and I couldn’t see their changes, and worse the wordcount was rapidly increasing due to double counting causing me to worry about a phantom 1000 words or so that disappeared as soon as I loaded the document into word and accepted all changes. On top of this my formatting was disappearing as the file was being saved as .odt, .rtf and .doc files (this also led me to submit an important document that I later learned looked a mess in Word).

Others…

• The help function…