Hi :) +1 to both points. The UI issue is cropping up more often but many people, get over their initial dislike and prefer the return to sanity because it makes it easier to find things and easier to learn new stuff.
The formats issue is mostly one of perception. People still believe the MS formats have longer longevity despite the fact they, almost daily, find problems sharing such files with each other. Just as Italo said and Jay agreed i've never had problems with any version of LO myself (or with clients) but i know there have been many over the years and even a couple of theoretical security issues. However i (well, my clients) run into problems with MS Office quite often, despite seldom actually using it myself. I originally joined this mailing list to learn about current problems and work-arounds in order to be ready for client's questions. I've always been over-prepared as a result = so thanks to all of you for that :)) Regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2015 at 18:01, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/11/2015 12:48 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: > >> On 11/10/15 11:44, Alex Thurgood wrote: >> >> I would suggest putting yourself in an admin's place where they have >>> probably invested long hours in developing a turnkey >>> OpenOffice/LibreOffice solution for their group of users, then finding >>> one day that that longstanding behaviour has changed because someone >>> else has not thought through a code change due to the tentacular nature >>> of the code base with no one having an overarching knowledge of it all, >>> and you will perhaps understand Andreas' frustration (which I happen to >>> share and have voiced it on the mailing lists in the past). >>> >> During the last four years I have helped to migrate to LibreOffice >> several Italian organizations - especially public administrations - for >> a total of over 30,000 PCs. Today, I am helping the Italian Defense to >> migrate to LibreOffice 150,000 PCs. >> >> I might be incredibly lucky, but I have never experienced significant >> stability issues with LibreOffice, since version 3.5. Of course, when I >> say "I have never experienced" I mean that none of the organizations I >> have helped has experienced significant stability issues. Again, we >> might be extremely lucky here in Italy. >> >> Hi Italo, > > The only consistent complaints I hear about LO is that the UI is different > from various MSO office versions and concerns about handling MSO file > formats. The first is complaint was often due to user unwillingness to > learn anything new - not an uncommon problem. This is not an LO specific > issue. The second issue, to me, is more legitimate. I have seen many > proprietary document formats for office documents come and go over the last > 30 years. I can appreciate the concern about being able to open documents > in a non-native package in the future. > > I have not heard of any (my very limited sample) stability issues that > could be attributed to LO. The stability issues I was seeing were Windows > issues seen in many packages. > > > I suspect your stability experience is the norm, LO is very stable. If > there are issues they are often user unwillingness to change or system > problems outside of LO. > > Jay > > > -- > 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
