Hello everybody! I think OpenOffice.org must be similar to MsOffice in order to be easy to use. Think again in the older man. If I say him "I have a new car, free, and easy to use like the older one" I think the older man give the new car a try. Aren't you afraid looking at first time the interface of a very new and electronic car? Don't you want to know where the velocimeter and other controls are? I have a second example, don't you know there are better distributions of keyboards in the world?, there are one able to be learned three times faster than qwerty one, but, all the people use qwerty-like keyboards... change a paradigm is harder. Everybody want to know where is the bolder style button, where can we insert an object, and so on In the other hand, I don't know if openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org>is skinable, but that thing could be a great feature in this software That's what I think take care, guys ;) -> the text that started this thread...
> To Whom It May Concern: > > First off I would like to clarify something. I'm biased towards Microsoft > products since they are the only things I have ever used. I looked at the > screenshots of your products out of curiosity and I was surprised how much > they look like Microsoft products. I understand that you want to make it > easy so that the few people the convert from Microsoft products will not > have > trouble using yours, but in my opinion you should try to give your > products a > different look. Let me phrase it another way. Let's pretend that there are > two cars. They look a lot alike, except that one has been around for > years; > it is trusted, and owned by hundreds of thousands of people. If a > middle-aged man was shown the two cars and it was proven that they looked > and > felt the same, he would probably buy the older one because of looks were > the > same, but the older one had more experience behind its manufacturing. My > advice (one man's opinion) is come out with a new look and feel to your > products. If you have a better product and a different feel, I would saw > that people would switch to you. Again, this is just one man's opinion. > > God Bless, > > John Paul Wohlscheid >
