-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone,
I'm new here so I hope no one minds me just jumping in. LibO usability is something that is near and dear to my heart so I thought this was a good thread to 'get up all in'. On 10/23/2010 8:11 AM, Frank Esposito wrote: <snip> > * it does not match MS Office functionality exactly (this is what the > world uses, so to get people to adopt LO, they need to have what they > already need) But I think it *does* match what most home (and many business) users need. I think the software is "almost there" and could be quickly and fairly easily refined to meet the remaining "must have" needs. > * It has issues with MS doc and docx files (yes I know MS formats in > an insane way and does not follow standards) > unrefined I do a lot of OpenOffice training and migrations and that is the #1 issue I hear from users. I believe solving this one problem is going to solve 30% to 50% of user problems and issues with the software. No, Microsoft doesn't follow standards (and they don't do that for the exact reason LibO and Oo are having difficulty with now) but near perfect compatibility is absolutely essential. <snip> > * LO needs to match every single MS Office function, and then provide > what MS Office is missing I don't know that I'd say *every* function in MS Office. There are some things that Office can do that probably 80% of even hard core users don't need. Hit the big ones, do focus groups on what people need, and start there. Good enough for a start IMHO. > * The interface needs to become refined (think iphone refinement), > maybe even adding the dreaded ribbon or option to switch between the > two types) Absolutely agree! As someone who used to be a Microsoft partner, I have to say that Office has a fantastic look about it. It's sexy, it's sleek, it's functional. Oo and LibO don't even come close to comparing UI wise yet. <snip> > * perfect the spellcheck system and advance grammar and formatting > control systems Thankfully, I don't think any of these will be terribly difficult. There is already a lot of technology out there that could be used for each of these functions. We just need to investigate them and implement them. > We could institute some kind of feedback program such as the test > pilot model that Mozilla uses > with Firefox 4. We can also look at how MS destroyed Word perfect in > market share to dominate the World Office suite business market. I think we could learn a *lot* from the way Microsoft plays ball. While we're not into the vendor lock-in that they are, many of the same tactics they used could easily be used against them. The only issue is you need a truly competitive technology to compete that way and, I don't think LibO is *quite* there yet, even if only because of the issues you mentioned. > Then LO needs to innovate new features and stabilize its current > feature set, this is how Firefox, and later Chrome won the browser > wars (in my opinion at least). Yep: investigate, implement, analyze, iterate. Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and Software Development Office: (918) 919-4624 Mobile: (918) 320-9968 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iQIVAwUBTMN5koeUq9QAeLbkAQIKHQ//fJYy2wF4Su9kqPUz0J7q4wJnxUwpw56k aGrofzCkKd8c2OvJUyDPkKCf3VIOPCi77rZ+oaDGHvj2hlDKyZOSgjixihVhkL/w 6ucLovwtJ5VszToD1xXWSAsVXjLTrz5nu1zEkWSaj8aEZPo2758i16vpP62B9bz4 msQfTb9Fe/jKuB0Eu9/8QFfLGIjtu+vhGk46bfSlTaG/Brnu5eyyqHZktzRkznjg /Y2PtLhmY2kRN5QHDl3MHV77X6AYEfinZgkv/K3mwAIdfZtLjue3mA263o+jVH70 F5mn22XSCDvLBsUMXEZT+W+xelW+xtuMBt3X6nzQr3aUuARDXNxz41Rcw/7szRpT ORmumDSVWrNN6tLiyURyGX9DZ8051Ef/u1bRd8I49KHp+d8UF7oAQjpOQObzPGmQ uH11V1IY6pG8txxRSpCnogx1oeToniELhVMxCuOCofNzGJJFpyCGljyaht9rRyQl fW+QumRtw7dJXtuUmHvNNr/cGSaUxj+8uEqW7UJKLK1BM2QdtU6mMBSM2CldtTX9 unq0ctu4GeZE5O8GOd6m8Nmsp6r7Y59xZ5uC7G041GVwNJtZXRQQ2Scs6bhLKd4D /C9/V7w93NM+rFCYzvDyz/5bVx7twqvgpBdkrH3I3Kw3bFXl//dxdj7mEVethiKy 2n99hUuWB7c= =eCeF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted