Hi :) Hmm, i was really meaning the wider community rather than just people on this list. With the rapid growth of LibreOffice it is highly likely that most people who have LibreOffice on their system are new to LibreOffice.
Advice about migrations from FSF and other FOSS advocates often seems to suggest keeping whatever office suite a person already has and just add LO (or AOO). Also because uninstalling&reinstalling MS products is such a pain or because most office workers have no idea how to uninstall stuff a lot of stuff just stays on the machine whether people use it or not. For longer-term users those versions of MSO might be quite ancient, such as MS Office 2003 or earlier, because we haven't bothered to upgrade it. [shrugs] Recently OEMs have started putting trial versions of MSO on machines so that people have to pay an additional amount a month or so after starting to use their new machine but in the past it was really difficult to find and buy a machine that didn't have MSO pre-installed. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 8 September 2013, 16:51 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer At 18:48 07/09/2013 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: >Most of us have both LO and MS Office on our systems. "We" are the subscribers to this mailing list, right? For the benefit of thousands of readers, should we correct this by saying that the idea that most users of LibreOffice also have Microsoft Office installed is pretty unlikely - indeed, bordering on the risible? Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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
