At this time of year for the last two years, I’ve tried converting away from MS Office to OpenOffice for work. Start of quarter is usually a good time to try these things, and start of year more so.

The last two years, I had to give up, primarily because of poor compatibility between Impress and Powerpoint. However, I’ve had so many compatibility issues between Powerpoint and Powerpoint recently, that I’ve decided to give it another shot.

So starting now (or whenever the download finishes), I’m going to try and kick MS Office again. Almost cold turkey, not sure yet how to deal with Outlook and Exchange, but for the rest I’ll be using OpenOffice as long as I can. I’ll report back here as I go, but any pointers will be most welcome.