GDAY WORLD #215 - Bitchin’ About Office 2007
Tonight in the Bitchcast, I’m joined by Jodie Miners and Tony Goodson. We bitched about a bunch of things, including (but not limited to):
By the way, I apologise for my mic being up too loud at the beginning and blame it on the new PC. My set-up isn’t exactly right. Also - when I went to edit this show I discovered that 1Mb RAM isn’t enough! Not even with the Dual Core. The whole machine froze to halt.
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March 19th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Assume you mean 1Gb of RAM, not 1Mb. Probably seemed like 1Mb at the time, mind you.
(So, have we convinced you to buy more RAM yet?)
March 19th, 2007 at 8:42 am
whoops yeah, 1Gb RAM. And it isn’t enough, you are so right!
March 19th, 2007 at 9:11 am
So here’s my thoughts on the whole thing. Yep the sound was terrible. I’d read earlier on the talkshoe forum that the sound varied between Gizmo, Skype and Voip so I think we could really see that in that recording. I was on Gizmo, Tony and Cam were on Skype Out. Cam sounded fine, Tony sounded like he was in a fishbowl and I sounded like I was underwater and blowing bubbles. And as I have a lot of experience talking underwater, I know that it sounds just like that. So, I’m not going to blame Gizmo, I think it’s more my $20 microphone and crappy PC. So I will not put anyone through the agony of listening to me again until I get my gear sorted out. But also the Talkshoe experience was not as good as what was promised on the Podcast the other day. Both Tony and I did not have the software that pops up to see who’s speaking and to be able to chat as well as speak. My windows client just referred me back to the website which just referred me to install the software… so I think there is some bugs there to be ironed out.
The main thing I took away was a big dose of reality - again… this stuff that Cameron does every day is not easy, and I completely suck at it. So once again Cameron, thanks for the excellent work you do…
March 19th, 2007 at 10:33 am
awww thanks JoJo. Yeah mics and bandwidth can make all the difference.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
MS Office BAH,
When i brought my last laptop i went about getting an oem version of office professional. A few months later a friend introduced me to open office and I wish I didnt bother. Open office reads and writes .doc and .xls files and it does 90% of the things that MSoffice will do (wont do all the VB and macro stuff that office does) and the interface is very similar to office too.
And the best thing is it’s free !!!
For most people’s word processing and spreadsheet needs it is great and you can bring stuff home from work, work on it and take it back into the office enviroment with no problems.
The only thing is it wont read the new 2007 office doc format (yet).
On the Vista front, I personally will wait till they fix it up a bit (SP1 or 2) before I even consider it.
Cheers
J
March 19th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Sorry for not replying to your email about the productivity buddy thing Jodie!!
When Cam posted about me needing one on the blog a got a whole lot of emails so I guess I lost track of it. Worst thing is I hate it when people don’t have the decency to reply to an email.
Anyway on a completely different note I’ve been playing around with the Office 2007 trial and I quite like it. Yes it is slow but not really that much slower than 2003 on my puter. Although that probably means that my computer is so slow that I’m used to it. That said I also like outlook and as far as most of you are concerned that’s the devil.
The real advantage of Office 2007 is that they’ve hidden all the stuff that makes documents ugly under a pile of menus and they’ve set it all up so even an idiot can create a professional looking document. That has to be a good thing.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Can you tell us the great podcasts here so we don’t have to wade through the other podcast to hear them if we don’t want to - and so we can find the links easily? Please?
March 19th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Thanks Miriam,
I agree with you there on the prettyness side of Office 2007. There is so much more for the Average Joe user and it really makes it almost more difficult to create a crap looking document than a really smart looking document, so I do love it for those features.
As for Open Office, I have tried it and can’t use it - being someone who knows office inside out and back the front, I can’t get used to some of the limiting features of Open Office, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who is needing an office suite for home use.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Open office just pisses me off. I hate trying to do something and then discovering that I can’t and that the version of office on my pda has more functionality.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:04 am
I have tried Open Office and atm have neoOffice installed on my mac. I am not a hard-core office user so it suits me for when I need to do something, which isn’t often.
I really enjoyed the show and almost glad i didn’t manage to make it in because I doubt I could add anything to the conversation that was going on. I don’t think either Jodie or Tony sounded that bad although they were a tad difficult to hear at times.
I also agree Talkshoe does need some work as I couldn’t see any live shows running which also led to part of my confusion trying to log in.
I haven’t seen The Departed as I had already seen Infernal Affairs and loved it and hate to see that tarnished in anyway. I was against Scorsee winning for the mere fact that it was remake, no matter how well done it was he ruined the ending and thus ruined the film.
I tried getting in on Gizmo but found no way to input the show ID number (followed by the #) as I couldn’t find a manual dialer input. If there is such a thing please show where it is. I have now added Skype Out credit so should be easier to get into the show, providing I am not busy playing WoW. Really cam that is a terrible time to do a show
And Miriam, you look great with your head shaved.