In this report I will talk about the decision you have to make before upgrading a software program and some advice so you won’t encounter any errors or difficulties!
The things that make you upgrade can be:
• New Features – There might be new things that might make your work better.
• Improved Performance – This might mean that the performance is much faster.
• Security – This new update will feature some security changes and will keep you safe from any viruses.
All these things above can make your mind up if you want to upgrade or not, it is always better to upgrade any software if told so but make sure the content is reliable from where you’re downloading the update from.
The potential risk that may occur when upgrading are:
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The program itself in previous version only supported a several of documents, now it supports more formats than Microsoft Office.
User Interface – As know before the OpenOffice has always been dull and many people didn’t download it because they thought it was just another cheap copy of Microsoft Office and that it was hard to use. Now with the update the program is so much easier to navigate through and find things within the program, which means people are now feeling more comfortable using the software.
Speed/Efficiency – Not much has been said in the report about the speed that it has, but previous versions have said to be freezing when saving or even exiting without letting the user know.
Disadvantages of upgrading are –
Cost – It’s not much as a disadvantage but as a positive as the price of the software doesn’t cost anything as it for FREE for anyone with Windows or IOS O.S.
Training- The training isn’t needed much, if people already had OpenOffice in previous version then they don’t need any training as it practically the same program but has some additional