Moley's Musings
I'm concerned with aspects of freedom, choice, respect, courtesy and consideration. This is obvious from my contributions. I also believe in the value of common sense.
Wednesday 3 December 2008, 9:52 PM
EIOffice Competitive Upgrade
Evermore Software (www.evermoresw.com) is currently offering EIOffice as a competitive upgrade at only $14.95 + VAT for the Personal Edition, both Windows and Linux versions are included in the download. I installed it last night and found it very nice to use and so much faster than OpenOffice. At the introductory price it's surely worth a try.
EIOffice has been around for about 6 years but the current version, EIOffice 2009, is considerably more attractive. So far as I understand it is fully compatible with all MS formats and the ODF, in addition to the alternative Chinese Standard. An interesting description can be found under Press Releases on the Evermore site.
I haven't yet had time to use it seriously, to see what it can and cannot do, so I will hope to report back in a few days. Meantime I can say it opens and displays my MS files faultlessly in a Windows environment.
EIOffice has been developed by the Wuxi Corporation in China and, I believe, is strongly supported by the Chinese Government. It would be nice if it could provide some more genuine choice and competition to M$ Office
EIOffice has been around for about 6 years but the current version, EIOffice 2009, is considerably more attractive. So far as I understand it is fully compatible with all MS formats and the ODF, in addition to the alternative Chinese Standard. An interesting description can be found under Press Releases on the Evermore site.
I haven't yet had time to use it seriously, to see what it can and cannot do, so I will hope to report back in a few days. Meantime I can say it opens and displays my MS files faultlessly in a Windows environment.
EIOffice has been developed by the Wuxi Corporation in China and, I believe, is strongly supported by the Chinese Government. It would be nice if it could provide some more genuine choice and competition to M$ Office
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Oops! Correction Mea Culpa.
EIOffice does not seem to support (O)OXML or ODF after all. I got carried away. It supports MS file formats up to Office 2003 so far as I can tell. That would seem to limit its usability a bit into the future.
Nevertheless it's quite nice to use and you get a Windows and Linux licence for the very modest introductory price.
Only thing to watch is that you have to change the permissions for the Linux setup file which is not explained in the instructions.
