Microsoft Office or the Free OpenOffice?
As a small business owner I’m still plugging away with Microsoft Office XP (2002), and I was wondering if was worthwhile to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 or look at another office suite.
I did find a great comparison of Microsoft Office and Open Office, available at openoffice.org, but I can’t go into too much detail here because it was laid out in a 10 minute video at HomeOfficeSmallBusiness.com
The video shows how the two office suites stack up head to head and the author generally recommends Open Office. He goes into the prices for Microsoft Office and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
He does recommend Microsoft Access for heavy database use and says that he’s heard good things about Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, but for small and home-based businesses he says Open Office will fit the bill.
