Comments on: First LibreOffice Stable Release Nears: What Now?

By: Barrett Pugel

Barrett Pugel — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:20:07 +0000

Microsoft Office documents store results of many hours, days or even years of work of practically all office employees and most people who use their computers at home. Microsoft Word dominates the market of word processors, and most if not all documents are stored in RTF and its proprietary DOC formats. Microsoft Excel and its XLS file format dominate spreadsheet market. Most presentations are created in Microsoft PowerPoint and stored in PPT files, and most charts and drawings are drawn in Microsoft Visio and saved as VSD files. Combined, files in these formats occupy significant space on the users’ hard drives, and represent hours and hours of work, much more than any other file format. -::’

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By: pdbms

pdbms — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In the article, you called for a more “microsoft” feel to the interface. CAREFUL!!! The whole reason that I switched away from MS Office in the first place was that they changed the interface so much that I was unable to work productively. At least with the old style interface, I can still use OO.

By: arenalgarden

arenalgarden — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I tried a TERMINAL install in Mint 10 via sudo dpkg -i ____ I got a dependency warning and didn’t pursue it any more . (OO works fine for me) I was just curious.

By: drednot57

drednot57 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From Go-OO’s website, they’re discontinuing the Go-OO project in favor of LibreOffice. I hope the major distros are taking notice.

By: lm

lm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am a heavy SuSE, OS X, and Windows user.

I am not a fan as to how Office 2010 flows, but ... I prefer to use that interface more than OOO because most of the documentation sent to me are in that format ... and MS Office can do some of the formats that OOO can do, so it is even more flexible.

You guys ... look at PowerPoint ... no equal. Easy to use and very powerful when you want to integrate other formats to deliver a very powerful presentation.

The MS Office UI is outstanding and can format open doc format, then I would expect that the Unix variants do the same towards MS formats ... while MS's hold is shrinking, it is only in a small way.

It is my hope that LibreOffice v3.4 or 4.0 can format xlsx and docx.