John Kaufmann wrote:
and not very user friendly."
Being user-friendly is a myth.
Something that I can get anybody to demonstrate, using the program that
they think is the most user friendly they have ever come across, within
sixty seconds.
>There's a reason why a product as good as OOo - being *given away*,
>available on every practical platform -
> still does not have a commanding market presence.
a) OOo is fighting vendor lockin. Software vendors simply aren't
providing support in their software for OOo they way they are for MSO.
b) OOo is fighting a file format war: It is not enough that ODF is an
ISO standard. What is needed is for developers and users to support it.
{Has ORA decided to provide a real template in ODF format, or are they
still expecting that a badly converted MSO Template will suffice?
[Remember the problematic artifacts that were mentioned in the OP. That
ORA template for MSO will create them, if you use it to create a
manuscript for ORA.]}
c) New computer shipments: For the past two or so years, trial version
of MSO have been included on systems that ship with MS Windows. This
tactic cons people into thinking that MSO is the only office suite that
works with windows;
d) Take a look at
http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/01/25/verbreitung-von-office-programmen-openoffice-ueber-21.html
http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html
Their methodology is flawed to kingdom come and back. still, the
reports are interesting.
it is because Writer's styles functionality is less than clearly thought out.
The way OOo implemented styles is a bit different from how both Wp and
MSO implemented styles.
FWIW, that was once the position of WP: supporting every platform (more than OO supports today),
Which version of WP was available for six different operating systems?
Seven operating systems, if you want to include the commercially
distributed eComm version of OOo.
jonathon
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