Ian Lynch wrote:
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:26 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Shows use of other character map implementations which are not as
minimalistic as the OO.o one
You're right that impovements are possible.
However, looking to the number of people I more or less suport in using
OOo, and the amount of complaints, I would say it bothers less than
0,1%. Which does not mean that the issue cannot be important.
But in such situation speaking about sucking, useless, dumb ... well,
that's to much for me :-)
We will never please all of the people all of the time but with every
incremental improvement some more will come on board and find it does
what they need. For the developers, choosing the priorities is not easy.
Let's hope they have the wisdom to choose the easier things that are
likely to have the greatest effect first. For 90%+ of word processor
users Writer is already over-kill but we do want to include the last 10%
eventually.
Ian
Of course OOo will never reach 100% market penetration, nor should
it. There will always be some people who will need special functions
that only M$ Office has, just as there are some people who still use
Word Perfect because of its special functions or the way it works. I
use OOo, not because it is cheaper, because I do have M$ Word on my
system, but because it does some things that Word cannot. Should OOo
continue to improve? Certainly, and of course it will.
I would predict that at some time in the next 3 to 9 years OOo will
pass M$ Office in total numbers of copies in use. And I suspect that M$
may actually help with this. In many of the things that M$ does they
actually shoot themselves in the foot. They are certainly making
themselves no friends in Europe!
Nevertheless, if functions like integrated e-mail, calendar, project
manager, etc. are added it will greatly speed up use of OOo in large
businesses. We may not all need such things, but the more that OOo is
accepted in the corporate environment, the faster it will take over
everywhere. Its use of the now international standard ODF will
certainly help, its price will help more, and its availability in so
many languages can't hurt either.
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