Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by chris_wot on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:14AM
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What sort of things are missing though? Genuinely interested - I'm always curious to see what is blocking folks from switching.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by ZenoArrow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:21PM
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I would suggest a VBA implementation in Calc would do a lot for getting LO taken more seriously in the business world.
Also bear in mind that Office is a moving target. Office 2016 is due out this year... http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/22/microsoft-announces-office...
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by overgryphon on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:45PM
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This is the wrong question to ask. What blocks people from switching isn't some specific MS Office feature missing in LibreOffice. It's a lack of compelling features in LibreOffice that are not available in competing products to justify the cost of migration.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by webjprgm on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:57AM
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Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice tend to crash on me. I stopped using them, but my wife still does and they still occasionally crash/hang on her. So in terms of stability I cannot recommend them.
They also just look uglier. I have not looked at this new LO version yet.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by xioxox on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:23PM
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I mainly use PowerPoint for science talks. I'd like to use Impress, but it's very buggy. It may be caused by importing PPT(X) files, but parts of slides become randomly uneditable and styles randomly don't work. The PPTX import often randomly breaks.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by all_your_gold on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @01:11PM
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At least for me, OOXML compatibility is the largest blocker - I have some documents which just won't open correctly with LibreOffice.
Though this is becoming less and less of an issue, I still keep Office 2007 in a virtual machine just to turn them at least into PDFs.
Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks
by mepcotterell on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:38AM
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The experience they've grown accustomed to.
Should be, but when it comes down to it, it just isn't Microsoft Office. Kind of like GIMP isn't Photoshop.
> Btw, are there some features that you feel that you're missing?
As a Mac user - full integration into the desktop experience. We get the same from Microsoft Office, but, of course, it's Microsoft Office and we're used to it there.
Look, I'm not going to claim that it makes sense. However, if you're going to beat Microsoft Office, you have to be far, far better than it. No almost-there, not equal, but demonstrably better.
And not on moral grounds, either. Most users aren't going to give a damn about moral grounds.