Stop! Web Time!
Dec. 15th, 2010 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerEDIT: The Web is _anything in a browser_. If it's not in a browser then it's not the web. If you use a chat client that's browser-based, then that counts. If you use one that's a program, then it doesn't.
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The reason I'm curious is Google's pushing of the Chrome laptops - which are designed to be web only. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the web nowadays, but I'm curious as to what percentage most people spend on it.
(Non-web usages of the computer are either playing non-web games (Dragon Age and Super Meat Boy this week) and watching videos - although that's mostly on Julie's PC, as it's in the bedroom.)
The second question is because there was a big battle over MS Office versus OpenOffice, and I realised that I don't really use Office at home since I stopped sending letters. I still have it (the joy of a brother who works for Microsoft), but I can't see me using it.
[Poll #1657175]
The reason I'm curious is Google's pushing of the Chrome laptops - which are designed to be web only. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the web nowadays, but I'm curious as to what percentage most people spend on it.
(Non-web usages of the computer are either playing non-web games (Dragon Age and Super Meat Boy this week) and watching videos - although that's mostly on Julie's PC, as it's in the bedroom.)
The second question is because there was a big battle over MS Office versus OpenOffice, and I realised that I don't really use Office at home since I stopped sending letters. I still have it (the joy of a brother who works for Microsoft), but I can't see me using it.
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Date: 2010-12-15 05:44 pm (UTC)http://why.openoffice.org/
Nothing about it (that I can see) on the Open Office website.
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Date: 2010-12-15 05:49 pm (UTC)http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreoffice
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Date: 2010-12-15 06:26 pm (UTC)OpenOffice.org continues, as does LibreOffice. But given how much Oracle wants to charge for the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office, I'd certainly like to see LibreOffice succeed fabulously well (which it should as the official office suite for several of the Linux distros)
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Date: 2010-12-15 07:03 pm (UTC)Same thing for the end-user. One will come to dominate, and effectively BE OpenOffice-new-name.
I'm low on details -- I gleaned this from skim-reading a PC magazine recently. Just sounds like more linux freetardness to me though.