LibreOffice 5.0 released

Posted Aug 5, 2015 19:23 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: LibreOffice 5.0 released by gb
Parent article: LibreOffice 5.0 released

Cute failure attempt to troll there.

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Regardless the Office 365 initiative from Microsoft is a major flop. Their cloud offerings are unreliable and confusing to use. Not to mention it locks users into monthly payment fees and makes Office nearly impossible to pirate.

I am serious about this. I've known many people that were 'converted' over to using 365 and it's a usability nightmare. Nobody likes it. It's a disaster of the highest order.

So right now is the time to strike. If the LibreOffice wait for Microsoft to get it's act together then it will be a major lost opportunity.

LibreOffice 5.0 released

Posted Aug 5, 2015 19:32 UTC (Wed) by davidgerard (guest, #100304) [Link] (3 responses)

Huh. Is it that bad? At work we moved off Lotus Notes and would either end up with O365 or GApps, we went for Google in the end. And people mostly like it.

The Google word processor and spreadsheet are ... primitive, though. If you want to do anything even slightly complicated - or read a docx reliably - then calling out to LO is needed.

LO 5.1 has work being done on a much nicer interface to GDrive, which works really well (if you're the sort of person who does real work with LO git master, as I am).

That said, outlook.com could take back corporate email just by supplying customer service ... I can confirm that Google treats its paying customers with precisely the same contempt it has for its free ones.

LibreOffice 5.0 released

Posted Aug 6, 2015 13:24 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

> Huh. Is it that bad?

From what I understand. It's unreliable and confusing. Microsoft does stuff like introduce different places files may end up based on sync'ng features and it's difficult for users to know were their documents are. That sort of thing.

Due to how Microsoft's licensing schemes work the people working in education are going to be the first people hardest hit by the forced upgrades. So if you know somebody that works at a university or community college or something like that it's likely they've already been upgraded to 365 and will give you a first hand account about their experiences with the software.

LibreOffice 5.0 released

Posted Aug 6, 2015 15:17 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

I use O365 at work at a higher-ed institution but I don't find it particularly unreliable or confusing but my co-workers seem to have a lot more trouble than I do with it. Maybe because I've used MS Exchange with a lot of clients I'm just more flexible or have learned to avoid flaky parts. I find that having used a wide variety of desktops as my daily work system means that differences don't confuse or bother me so much and I'm not so attached to any particular workflow that I can't effectively use something else. Some people seem to get really dug in to particular tools which seems to cause a lot of pain when they inevitably have to change.

LibreOffice 5.0 released

Posted Aug 6, 2015 19:57 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Most people I talk to that mention it are not what you would call very experienced users in any environment, besides maybe web browsing on Windows.