Computer Technology-101
Ms. Denise Rieves
June 23, 2011
MS OFFICE
The benefits of using MS Office VS. Not using MS Office.
Nicola Washington
Ms. Denise Rieves
CT-101
23 June 2011
MS OFFICE
MS Office is Microsoft's suite of desktop business application software for Windows and Mac. All versions of the suite have included Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets), Access (database) and etc. Kingsoft Office is commonly known simply as KSO, developed by Zhuhai based Chinese software developer, Kingsoft, is an alternative to Microsoft Office(Wikipedia). There are several benefits of using MS Office and not using MS Office or using an alternative.
MS Office is the number one word processing software; the alternative word processing software’s usually generate their ideals, therefore being a fabrication of MS Office. Kingsoft Writer, an equivalent to Microsoft Word, Kingsoft Presentation, an equivalent to Microsoft PowerPoint, and Kingsoft Spreadsheets, an equivalent to Microsoft Excel, whereas Kingsoft does not offer a database software or any of the other software’s MS Office offers.
Some disadvantages of Kingsoft Office are 1. Kingsoft Office 2009 works with Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 7 but not Macintosh computers and 2. If you’re a big fan of Microsoft Outlook, you’ll notice that Kingsoft Office includes no email and contact management software. MS office on the other hand provides you with a complete set of productivity and information management tools to accomplish routine tasks quickly, effectively manage customer and contact information in one place, produce professional-quality marketing communications and campaigns in-house, and simplify database creation and reporting.
Microsoft Office provides the Live Preview feature of styles and formatting. That is, the content of the document temporarily applies formatting on the focused text or object when any formatting button is moused over. This allows users to