Openoffice, LibreOffice, Koffice, etc. vs. Microsoft Office

iWork and MS Office are more reliable.

MS Office is what a lot of people are using so it is easy to share files, is more stable and has more features.

I use iWork on my Mac and OpenOffice everywhere else. But OpenOffice is so bloated it's barely worth using. I'd rather use something that actually loads the first time.

First off, I don't know where to start with editing your question (some of the grammar is off. I'm willing to help if needed). I'm sorry but I can't fully understand what you are trying to communicate with me. I'll try to answer your question though.

People use Microsoft Office for a variety of reasons. MS Office is more widely used in the workplace, and so some people have no option. Some people are in school/college, and they are forced to use it.

I personally like iWork better, because you can make a really polished presentation using Keynote. It's Office done better.

Now you may be asking, "Open Office is compatible with .doc and .docx files. Why should I pay for MS Office?" Well, Open Office does a fantastic job with it's price. It can read MS Office files, but I've noticed that when I'm working on a PowerPoint presentation, Open Office will distort some of the images, or it will mess up some of the text.

I can't say that Open Office is bad, but I prefer to use iWork.

I agree with what catchatyou said. I've used Open Office before but really don't like it. First, it just doesn't look good but also it has some missing features and has a lot of problems with messing up documents that I've opened in it. Applications like iWork and MS Office are worth the cost.

I use OpenOffice very often and I like it. I do, however, understand why people buy MS Office and iWork. They're easier to use and you can create beautiful presentations and stuff, which you will never be able to do with OpenOffice.

If you want to get anything accomplished, other than typing a simple paper, iWork and MS Office are 1000x better.

The cross application usability (e.g. being able to paste a portion of a spread sheet into an E-mail and still have all of the functions still present) alone is enough to make it worth the money.

OpenOffice and others don't have grammar check which means you can inadvertently have a sentence fragment and not realize it. I'm not saying MS Office is perfect but OpenOffice looks like NotePad + Hotmail + MS Paint

This question is a good one. Why do people pay for a software instead of using a free piece of software that does the EXACT same thing? Many people pay for Microsoft Office for the main purpose of the "Brand Name: Microsoft". Not only that, when you use the open source programs, they look cheap and don't perform as well as the paid versions from Microsoft. All-in-all, Microsoft Office Enterprise is the way to go in the end if you want performance, stability, UI...etc.

Open Office is free but very limited to what Microsoft Office can do. I would rather go with M O even though it costs money.