On 2012-10-03 22:41, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 02/10/12 19:38, Tim Deaton wrote:
I don't think we need to remove existing features. But I DO think we
need to focus on the "90% of average users". Basically, I think LO
should be making sure it can do everything that MS Office 97
(15-year-old software) could do, and do it just as well and just as
easily. If LO could do THAT, it would eat Microsoft's lunch.
Absolutely agree. Most of the "functionality" that MS has added to
Office 2007/2010 has been geared towards the corporate collaborative
user, which certainly in my experience (and I have to say my last
corporate job was over ten years ago so the playing field may well
have changed in this respect) wasn't a key factor in usage, and
certainly has never been in the SOHO sector.
I believe that Office 2013 is even more aimed at "cloud" and
"collaborative" usage - although it's highly probable that I shan't
ever find out!
One of the problems that I've come across is that my daughter uses LO
and "sends as" MS Office 97-2003 documents when emailing. It appears
that her recipients get gobbledy-gook so I need to find out what's
happening there because that shouldn't happen.
IMHO LO is every bit as good as MS Office 97, but then that wasn't a
particularly good iteration of MS Office! I think the aim should be to
match Office 2003, which still seems to be the current standard by
which Office suites are measured. (The very large international
company my Wife works for are still on 2003......)
Yes, I need to look deeper at LO and "sends as" or "Save as" MS Office
97-2003 documents as my kids are complaining their LO docs from home
("sends as" or "Save as" MS Office 97-2003) are not opening properly in
MO2010 at school. May be MO are doing this to force users to docx and
break compatibility with LO.
steve
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