| bevochan said: In my opinion, office 365 is stupid for students or anyone in academics. For a word processor, what more do you need other than some fonts and spell checker? Most academic computers don't have the latest version of office, so using the latest version of office causes lots of compatibility issues at school. Also, if you do presentations on powerpoint, you don't need much. Being in academia in medicine, the most important thing that you are taught about doing a presentation is that the powerpoint should only be white background/black letters with minimal color and no animations (also no more than 8 words by 8 lines per page). Unless you're a sales person that is making a powerpoint presentation with all fluff, colors, and animations without any substantial substance, Office XP is more than adequate for regular academic use. You can use dropbox or google drive for cloud. Likely for presentations, the academic computer usually doesn't have cloud anyways, so you'll need an USB flash drive. |
hmmm depends on your branch of study....
but I do not agree on the simple base that it is not only on what you need.... but what you should know for the day you will heavily rely on it for work.... if the only shit you know is the basics and even worst the basics of office XP you are a freaking hasbeen on the job market....
heck if you are not gonna spend money on a recent distribution of a soft you will need to use in your field of work go in the open source world then.... I'd recommand last version of oppen office over office XP to any student....
I understand your reasoning.... but current need for studying opposed to fuiture need knowledge in your field of work is very different.... and on powerpoint... I can't remember when I saw for the last time a black and white presentation.... I'd be a teacher I wouldn't tolerate such poor presentation in our day and age..... not knowing how to do use a tool like power point better for a 20 yo is outrageous.... it'd be like not knowing how to use a fountain pen last century....
