IBM Frees Us From The Tyranny That Is Microsoft Office

Or Does it?

I really don't like the idea of personal word processing, spreadsheet and database. Any such office suite, individual or bundled together from Microsoft or otherwise, is just pure evil in the office environment. Who needs Word? Let's just have a simple text editor, write in html via blog or wiki. Most people aren't writing any document that needs fancy features say table of contents, index or such. Excel spreadsheet and database for PC users? Please, they just mess up the data and scattered garbage all over the network and on the harddrive. If users need anything, the right way to do it is to custom build it from some SQL server and deliver to the users. Never mess with spreadsheet or PCish database like Access. And the big wigs love PowerPoint. I mean for Pete's sake, just type some words on some slides and show people, I never understand the appeal of PowerPoint. Just say no to office (non)productivity suite, that's my ideal office setting. But it's not going to happen.

So I really don't care too much about IBM's offering free download of some office software. Office software, some invention that shouldn't have happened but happened. Most workers would be so much happier and productive without them. (The New York Times get on the permalink program, good for them)