Re:LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance im...
by ZeroGravitas on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:07AM
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Not until they have competition able to break their lock-in, till then the craziness of their format acts as a barrier to entry. So again, it's a problem created by Microsoft, but it's a problem for their users and competitors. And that's why it's not going to be fixed.
Re:LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance im...
by streptomycin on Thursday May 31, 2012 @09:31AM
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It's not nearly as big a problem for Microsoft. First of all, the compatibility problems are much bigger between LibreOffice and MS Office than between different versions of MS Office. Secondly, if you tell your colleague, "Oh, the margins are screwed up because I upgraded to MS Office 2051", they'll just shrug it off. If you tell them, "Oh, I'm using this new software called LibreOffice because blah blah blah", they'll probably yell at you for being a moron and wasting their time.
Re:LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance im...
by bad_user on Thursday May 31, 2012 @09:54AM
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If my colleagues ever said I'm a moron and that I'm waisting their time for using LibreOffice ... I would tell them to either buy a Windows+Office license for me, or otherwise go fuck themselves.
Re:LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance im...
by streptomycin on Thursday May 31, 2012 @09:59AM
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And if you're in a position to tell your colleagues to go fuck themselves, then you can do what you want. The rest of us aren't so lucky.
Also, the cost of a Windows+Office license is so small that pretty much any company will happily buy it for an employee.
This is also Microsoft's problem.