I have not tried it outside of VPC yet. To be honest I have it too good with 2003.

To be honest I’ve been testing OpenOffice along the same time as Office 2007. I am seeing a huge backfire in terms of cost of the Office suite for the people that do not see themselves going down the Microsoft line. Most places have their own LOBs that they live and die on and Office is really not that critical of a piece.

Anybody else seeing/approaching the market this way?

I had the first site go all OpenOffice and save a lot of money in the process. The savings on licensing alone was about $4,000 and the way I pitched it: “For your needs, this does more than enough”

We did a rollout this Thursday and while people did notice that they’ve been “upgraded” nobody had any problems with opening documents, converting others, or printing/sharing. The only thing that came up was saving as .doc, they wanted to keep that as the default format.

It really went far better than I ever expected. This company is fairly basic (mortgage application processor) but they have a huge volume and they wanted to standardize but SA wasn’t in the budget.

[...] I have Outlook 2007 on my laptop and Outlook 2003 on my main workstation – and the latest Technical Refresh seems to be causing a slight bug that made my Outlook 2003 view ugly. If Outlook 2007 fires up first with Outlook 2003 being offline it resets the default font on the default Inbox view from Tahoma 8pt to Segoe UI 8pt…. a font that looks really ugly in Outlook 2003. Anyhow, here is how you reset it back: (click on the screenshot to enlarge) [...]