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Hi all,
I'm working on a tshirt for those who are already fully assimilated, to wear to help convince the Microsoft Office users. I'm looking for ideas that are better than what I came up with.
Any thoughts on other Top 10 Reasons? I'm looking for factual or silly or just funny. ;>
Thanks,
Solveig
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Respectfully, it's not fair to say that MS Office 2007 doesn't make PDFs.
Posted by: Jeremy | January 30, 2007 at 02:09 PM
Hi Jeremy,
Last I heard, Adobe had withdrawn the option to let MS Office create PDFs.
Solveig
Posted by: Solveig Haugland | January 30, 2007 at 02:26 PM
The ability to publish to PDF (or XPS) is not included by default, but Office 2007 has a built-in link to the following addin.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en
Posted by: Jeremy | January 30, 2007 at 02:54 PM
Four of these are basically about the same thing - the money. I think some more variety needs to be present.
How about something about the lower system requirements and not needing to upgrade a computer to run it. Or that it runs on older versions of Windows while MS Office 2007 only works on Vista and XP. Or something about a lack of bloat.
Or something humorous about how everyone needs at least one program that ends in ".org".
Or "if Microsoft wants us to have ribbons they should give Office 2007 as a gift, wrapped in them."
Posted by: Scott B | January 30, 2007 at 06:01 PM
Oh, good -- yes, the system requirements. I've seen those "I'm a mac, I'm a PC commercials" that reference those issues.
Ribbons....that has potential, yes!
Goofy name -- great software. Something like that for openoffice.org.
Thanks, Scott!
Posted by: Solveig Haugland | January 31, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Hi Troy,
Great points and ideas! Maybe something along the lines of "great night's sleep from knowing all your licenses are always legal."
Love the ODF thing -- it's kind of like that Compass Bank ad a few years ago, "There will be a $2 fee to access your tube top."
I think I might have a good tshirt coming.
Posted by: Solveig Haugland | January 31, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Here's another one. OpenOffice.org is often abreviated as OOo. You could do some sort of play on words with this as in "OOo and Ahhhh."
Posted by: Scott B | January 31, 2007 at 03:10 PM
Make your system say Ooo. ;>
I'll take another run at the original design for the shirt.
Posted by: Solveig Haugland | February 02, 2007 at 06:21 AM