I switched because LibreOffice is supposed to have better support. That's exactly why i am using Open/Libre office at some point Microsoft Office got such a complicate UI (ever since they pushed the ribbon bar - that's when they kicked me in the teeth) that i am unable to use it - the alternative uses a much less complicated UI so i am with it.ĭoes the MS Office UI conform with the Windows UI guidelines ? I am not quite sure.Īs for 'unreliable' - i can't share this perspective LibreOffice works for me didn't have any problems with OpenOffice either - before i switched to LibreOffice. It was still better than a kick in the teeth though. clunky, unreliable clone of older Microsoft Office products.

End users needed to make a *choice* betweenīy no longer being an end-user application, that goes away.Įnd users play no role any more? Good luck with that. We should be there to set the facts straight butĪlso resign ourselves to the fact that their voices willīut the main reason why, imo, was because we were alsoĮnd-user.

Who will use this as a self-serving soapboxing opportunity,Īnd warp the facts into some Bizarro alternate universe Proof: as alluded to above, we should prepare ourselvesįor the FUD, the 'AOO is dead' victory chants, the numerousĪnti-AOO and anti-Apache spewings, etc. OpenOffice, that is *excellent* software and *pretty bad* LibreOffice, that is *good* (not more) software and Parallel universe: we look at LibreOffice and compare:

Libreoffice vs openoffice cnet