2008-03-02
it :: office tools are so 20th century
You are emprisoned with me to MS Office, Openoffice, Google Apps, Zoho, iWork and the likes -- and you think they don't live up to your expectations? Well, so do I (check also here).
Most work I do in these days I start in MS Office. Mostly it is heavy on Powerpoint, Tables and Excel. Right after some slides I typically wonder why I can't do longer tables, why I can't calculate in them and how I want to include the voicetrack for the ones that have not the right location to hear me presenting the slides.
In other work a Slide grows into an Excel, grows into an MS Access and then last but not least has lost any intelligent way of data presentation.
Well, I think all todays Office options are not up to the task. There are some important things missing out totally: MVC design (model view controler), units in calculations, unsharp data, modular data storage (better than publish/subscribe and ole), built in documentation, multi language, multi output, sharing.
Most work I do in these days I start in MS Office. Mostly it is heavy on Powerpoint, Tables and Excel. Right after some slides I typically wonder why I can't do longer tables, why I can't calculate in them and how I want to include the voicetrack for the ones that have not the right location to hear me presenting the slides.
In other work a Slide grows into an Excel, grows into an MS Access and then last but not least has lost any intelligent way of data presentation.
Well, I think all todays Office options are not up to the task. There are some important things missing out totally: MVC design (model view controler), units in calculations, unsharp data, modular data storage (better than publish/subscribe and ole), built in documentation, multi language, multi output, sharing.
# posted by Olaf Zanger @ 19:54 
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