Can you survive without Microsoft Office?

I was wondering..what if someday, Microsoft said they were going to discontinue all the Microsoft Office products, and they would deactivate all the product on this world in any means. What will happen to you if this kind of thing really happen? Would you turn to open source office suite, such as Open Office?

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Permalink Reply by Jadzia on June 14, 2009 at 5:40pm: I turned to OpenOffice ages ago. I didn't have any issues with the switch.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by OneSide on June 14, 2009 at 5:41pm: I've already been doing this for years. Since I don't require any sorts of complex document creation things, OpenOffice or even Abiword tend to work just fine for my needs.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by LADYTECH on June 14, 2009 at 5:56pm: MO is sooo easy compared to what some of us had to use way back then. Try using word perfect 5.1 for Dos you know the one with the blue screen and white letters. Now that was difficult.
Stuff today people don't know how easy it is.
I had someone the other day complain about how they didn't want to use office 2007 because the ribbon is so different now. Lord, they wanted office 2003 because it was easier to find the print button on 2003. Shouldn't we all want to progress in life. Bunch of Tards!!

I use MO 2007 now.
So, Can I survive without it? yes. Would I want to? No. Hey, theirs always notepad.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anubis on June 14, 2009 at 8:22pm: Lol, i still use that every now and then lol.

it is indeed difficult xDDD.

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Permalink Reply by jake on June 14, 2009 at 11:38pm: i agree. i could not go back to any ms office pre 2003 but im forced to use 2003 at school. imaine what that customer would say about windows 7. "i dont whant to use it because i cant find the print buttion in ms paint. or the taskbar has no words n it so i cant find whats open"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Laura on June 14, 2009 at 6:04pm: I haven't used any MS Office products since I stopped working as an admin asst. I don't miss them. I remember using WordStar years ago. Now I like plain text versus anything else. If I have to use a word processor I go with something simple I find in freeware. I have Open Office but it is just as clunky and complicated as MS Word ever was.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by medinamatt on June 14, 2009 at 6:04pm: can i? yes.

have i? yes.

will i? yes.

am i? yes.

been using open office since march. its not that bad. and i kinda dont want to get used to the ribbon interface, though i think its cool; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ken on June 14, 2009 at 6:31pm: I would miss it, but then I would just go to open source programs.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on June 14, 2009 at 7:09pm: I have been using Open Office pretty steady since 2005. Before that Wordperfect, Quattro Pro, and the Lotus suite prior to that. MS word and Office has been something that I used because it was a forced issue only. Never because I needed it though.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by zach on June 14, 2009 at 8:54pm: For me all I really need is a simple word processor and a simple spreadsheet and thats it, so anything works for me, I've used open office, and my eee pc came with microsoft works, but yea, I would be, and am ok with out it lol.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alucard on June 14, 2009 at 9:30pm: i seem not to be the only person favoring open office, its really nice,; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brandon Turnbull on June 14, 2009 at 9:52pm: i hate MO 2007 the whole new system even new hotkeys when i first saw it i swiched to open office same hotkeys as the old MO and free; ▶ Reply to This