On Mon November 7 2005 19:09, lars_o_hansen wrote: > Hi, > > what do you think of: > > "With each new office suite and word processor release we become more > concerned that software companies like Sun Microsystems, Corel, and even > community projects like OpenOffice.org are more interested in competing > with Microsoft Office than they are in developing excellent software. The > new features and enhancements in each release are all about doing what Word > does or mimicking Excel. Why not just worry about adding features and > improvements > that users want, rather than play catch-up with Microsoft? > > StarOffice 8 leaves us with that catch-up feeling. It is a good office > suite -- > better than Microsoft Office for the money, and better technically in many > ways -- but it's trying too hard to be like the market leader. We'd rather > see > an intelligently designed office suite with a fresh approach than one that > can > do everything that Microsoft Office can." > > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/23/198225.shtml > > > bottom line: add features users want rather than mimick Microsoft
The problems are : 1) Most users want 100% compatability with Word/Excel/PPT 2) I've not seem any other requests that users call for (except the email integration) more loudly than 1 Do you have your top 10 of what needs to be added rather than "mimick" ? -- Please reply to [email protected] only. Normally [email protected] is the best list to ask questions about using OpenOffice.org -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
