Re: Office 2004 buy or not to buy

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On 2007-09-01 11:00:01 +0200, Krzysztof M. <mkrzych@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Hello,
I'd like to ask you about is it Office 2004 worth to buy nowdays? I need a text editor and a spreadsheet but more for technical purposes where equation editor and possibility to create graphs for data with Y-errorbars are important. But my question is how long my documents from Office 2004 will be readable? New realease of Office for Mac is coming, how long Microsoft is going to support the older one usually? I'm still not sure about these things and I am trying to avoid expences as much as possible, because 400$ will make me a hole in my wallet for sure ;-) Second thing, which is pros in this case, Office 2004 have more patches already released and I think that can be much more stable that the new release, at least till Microsoft prepare patches for new release. Do you agree? What is your advice?

Thanks a lot for any help.

Hello,
Thank's a lot for all your answers guys. They are really useful for me. My Mac experience is above 1 year now, but prior that I have been using Linux for 5 years. I know quite well Open Office and I started playing with iWork'08. Each of these packages have some pros and cons obviously, but non of these is really ready for some scientific work. In OO Calc has lack of function that allow me to create Y-errorbars based on data from specified columns from a data file. Writer is quite well, but have some compatibility issues especially when you move a file to Windows environment and a file has a big number of tables - I always hear complaints from Windows users to whom I send a OO files. But as I said it pretty good IMHO. I don't worry about VBA support too much, but I start thinking how Apple Script support will be good for Office 2008 and how easy VBA scripts are going to be translatable.
So maybe I have to double think about it - 400USD is again not so small amount of money for me in comparison to OO which is free and iWork (Oh, not for scientist, isnt't it?) for 79USD.

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Krzysztof M.
I'm a Mac, are you still a PC?

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