Comments on: For productivity tools, Microsoft still reigns http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/02/24/for-productivity-tools-microsoft-still-reigns/ My personal musings about a little of everything Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 <img class='wavatar' border='' src='http://www.unpocodetodo.com/wp-content/cache/wavatars/a5b1e664da6f796d3.png' width='80' height='80'>By: jorge tubio http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/02/24/for-productivity-tools-microsoft-still-reigns/#comment-85 jorge tubio Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:01:53 +0000 http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/02/24/for-productivity-tools-microsoft-still-reigns/#comment-85 Hola Carlos, Lo primero enhorabuena por el blog. Llevo unos dias intentando contactarte por telefono pero me es casi imposible. Simplemente quería hablar contigo sobre un proyecto de una conferencia sobre web experience 2.0. Mi email es jorget@marcusevanscz.com Simplemente quería saber tu opinión sobre el tema. No tengo ninguna intención comercial :) Si te apetece escribe un mail con tu numero y te llamo. Gracias y un saludo Jorge Hola Carlos,

Lo primero enhorabuena por el blog.

Llevo unos dias intentando contactarte por telefono pero me es casi imposible. Simplemente quería hablar contigo sobre un proyecto de una conferencia sobre web experience 2.0.

Mi email es jorget@marcusevanscz.com

Simplemente quería saber tu opinión sobre el tema. No tengo ninguna intención comercial :)

Si te apetece escribe un mail con tu numero y te llamo.

Gracias y un saludo

Jorge

]]> <img class='wavatar' border='' src='http://www.unpocodetodo.com/wp-content/cache/wavatars/950d15bb37f52fde1.png' width='80' height='80'>By: Johan Paz http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/02/24/for-productivity-tools-microsoft-still-reigns/#comment-83 Johan Paz Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:57:40 +0000 http://www.unpocodetodo.com/2008/02/24/for-productivity-tools-microsoft-still-reigns/#comment-83 Some MS tools as 'WORD' are fine. You can obtain a real-profesional final document. But even that cute tools of MS, like most of MS products, basically wrong in the own bases. WORD, for instance, is unnecesarily complex, it does 'unexpected' thing too many times. I used the old FrameMaker equivalent while i could and only became WORD user because i was forced. For instance, i have tried lots of different mailers and Outlook is basically insane. It is much pretty but it does whatever it wants when i quoted a mail while replying it. The only MS Office tool i really love is Powerpoint. The rest are just a pain, a incoherent bunch of strange behaviors. I have used Google Apps and they just works. Of course you cannot get a real final and professional document from them. But it does what you can expect it do. I have used Google Apps to do real close-collaborative works, real-time storm of cross-changes and they works in a perfect way. Finally we took the document done and reformat it in the WORD for getting a better look, but the 'real' work was done in Google Apps. The agility you can obtain using that kind of applications (or things like a wiki) are much greater (and the experience much simple, clear...) than using most of the heavy and strange MS tools of collaboration i have tried (i must to say i havent tried 'Share Point'). Some MS tools as ‘WORD’ are fine. You can obtain a real-profesional final document. But even that cute tools of MS, like most of MS products, basically wrong in the own bases. WORD, for instance, is unnecesarily complex, it does ‘unexpected’ thing too many times. I used the old FrameMaker equivalent while i could and only became WORD user because i was forced.

For instance, i have tried lots of different mailers and Outlook is basically insane. It is much pretty but it does whatever it wants when i quoted a mail while replying it.

The only MS Office tool i really love is Powerpoint. The rest are just a pain, a incoherent bunch of strange behaviors.

I have used Google Apps and they just works. Of course you cannot get a real final and professional document from them. But it does what you can expect it do. I have used Google Apps to do real close-collaborative works, real-time storm of cross-changes and they works in a perfect way. Finally we took the document done and reformat it in the WORD for getting a better look, but the ‘real’ work was done in Google Apps.

The agility you can obtain using that kind of applications (or things like a wiki) are much greater (and the experience much simple, clear…) than using most of the heavy and strange MS tools of collaboration i have tried (i must to say i havent tried ‘Share Point’).

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