Nice article indeed. I personally like the structured way of the menus. I am a long time user of OpenOffice, and later LibreOffice.
When MS started with the ribbon, I just didn't use MS office anymore, and on my newer systems (Mac's and PCs) I only install LO. Recently I experienced that I can't update LO beyond version 4.3.6 on the Mac I mostly use which is running OSX 10.7.5; The hardware does not allow upgrading OSX any further... So, I feel a little 'left in the dark' I am still a happy user of LO, though! Rob. On 21 aug. 2015, at 13:02, Pedro wrote: > Jack Wallen wrote >> Thought I'd share this. One of my latest open source pieces for >> TechRepublic about LibreOffice 5.0. >> >> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/libreoffice-5-0-the-strongest-release-to-date/ > > Nice article. > > I disagree that the UI is the biggest problem... > > If you are a NEW user (i.e. never used an Office suite before) then you need > to learn it from zero and organized menus are more logical than large > buttons organized by someone else. > If you are moving from Office 2003 then you will feel at home. > However if you are used to Office 2007 or newer then you are in real > trouble. Not only you will have to relearn/adjust to the UI but you will > have BIG problems with round-trip documents regardless if you are using XML > based MS file formats or Open Documents... > > The issue is that not only XML based MS formats are proprietary and > constantly changing even within MS Office versions (so it is impossible for > other Offices to open or save EXACTLY like MS) but Microsoft makes sure that > you will also not want to use Open Document format to exchange files. You > will ALWAYS get some warning (more or less scary) that you will loose > something or that you have already lost something... > > I really don't see a solution for this problem... Even if Governments > effectively push for Open Documents, the scary messages will always make > users think twice before opening or saving to Open Document formats... > > Just my 2 cents ;) > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-5-0-Review-Rating-PCMag-com-tp4157614p4157845.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
