Thread: Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2009-08-12 , 17:27
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
so instead of investing in OOo (which would offer the same functionality) they take ms office? - i can only hope this has nothing to do with Maemo.
Why do you hope that this has nothing to do with Maemo.
Its an additional choice. And having such a big company and more importantly a big office productivity app on Maemo will only make Maemo more important in the market. Do you not want that ? Or do you want Maemo to have apps like iFart only ?

And if you do not want MS Office on your tablet, I am sure you will be free not to install it.

Originally Posted by mars View Post
I've always thought that OOo was an acronym for BLOAT.

SoftMaker's Office might be a future (but closed) alternative, since they currently support Windows, Pocket PCs, Windows CE, and Linux X86. They had a 2002 version of their word processor that was respectable on the Sharp Zaurus. So if they thought there was a reasonable market they could probably be convinced to jump in.
Exactly my sentiment ... I too wish that Softmaker makes a port of their Office apps for Maemo. I used Softmaker's Textmaker for the Zaurus , as well as for Linux and Windows PC's and have had better experience and better format support (for Word at least) on Textmaker than on OO.
Last edited by nilchak; 2009-08-12 at 17:31.