Thing #18

I actually read a news story about this recently... the rumor is that the next version of MS Office will be web-based, and that they will eventually be migrating to an all-web format. Maybe the situation was that you can get a "free" web version of Office that has ads and reduced features in it, and the desire to get more features and get rid of the ads will inspire people to buy the real version. But why do that when you can get them already??

I am more familiar with Google overall, so I prefer Google docs, but it looks like OpenOffice is more in-depth. Obviously some disadvantages are that if you lose internet you lose access to the online materials. But I think there is major advantages, in that 1) things are migrating to open-source and online anyway, and 2) open-source and free beats paying a whole lot of money for something you'll just have to pay to upgrade in a year or two anyway!