martes, 23 de septiembre de 2014

Mirosoft Office vs. Libreoffice.


The following text explains some advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Office and Libre Office as the previous one, but this time we are going to base our ideas on another person's opinion which you can see in the link below:

In this video there's a girl who explains Microsoft Office's advantages: It has most Office productivity tasks like for example, Document production, Spreadsheet formulation, multimedia presentation programs etc... She also says that its document format is the most commonly used.

She also explains some of the main advantages of Libreoffice like for example that it is free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It has Writer which is not too different from Microsoft's Word, Spreadsheet program similar to Excel, Impress multimedia presentation program which is similar to the PPT that we can find in Microsoft, also we can find Draw which is a diagram and sketch program as well as Math which is an ecuation editor and even more things.

However Microsoft has few disadvantages like the following ones: Obviously the main one is the fact that it is expensive and it gets even more as you buy extra things that are free in Libreoffice, she also says that it doesn't play well with all proprietary document formats and it has many different stability issues.
On the other hand we have Libreoffice which also has some disadvantages but lot less, the main one is that it can cause problems when dealing with very complexed tasks but it usually doesn't.

In conclusion, what this video says is that Libreoffice is a better option because it is almost the same as Microsoft but with less disadvantages, it is an incredible usefull tool, it can do few things that Microsoft can't and all this for free!

domingo, 21 de septiembre de 2014

Differences between Microsoft Office and LibreOffice.

An Office Suite is a set of programs that includes, among others, the following tools: Spreadsheet, Word Processor, Database manager, and Presentations software.

Below we are going to explain the differences between Microsoft Office and Libreoffice which are two different office suites. The main differences are the following ones:





  • LibreOffice is a free software program. You, as a user, have rights to study the source code, modify it, and share it with others.
  • On the other hand, Microsoft Office is a proprietary software. This type of license contains an extensive list of activities which are restricted like redistribute, obtain the source code or modify it.
  • Microsoft Office is not free. You have to pay to use it. You can pay once or an annually fee. Also you have to pay to update it with a new version.
  • LibreOffice is usually developed in a collaborative way. There are programmers who spend their free time in collaborate developing this software. There are no contractual support for the users. Errors are solved by forums of developers. There are no a big company with funds to support the product.
  • While, Microsoft Office has a support team who solves the errors of the application.
  • In both cases, the license terms are documents with several pages and with a lot of legal terms.






  • LibreOffice license can be read at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/
  • Microsoft Office license can be read at  http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=13653