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Re: It makes no sense
by AC on Saturday 03/Nov/2007, @02:15

OpenOffice is bloated and hard to use because instead of improving the apps they are always following Microsoft. There's no need for another app to go that way.

For example kpresenter is different from ms powerpoint, but IMHO it's better and easier to use (although some features are missing).

The bottom line is: we don't need another ms office!

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Re: It makes no sense
by T. J. Brumfield on Saturday 03/Nov/2007, @18:44

It isn't bloated for copying MS Office, and it certainly departs from MS Office in many ways. It is bloated because of a large, perhaps poorly written code base.

MS Office is perhaps the best piece of software MS has put out. It is very feature rich, stable, and loads very quickly. It is well integrated, and really a good product. If it were multiplatform, I might just use it on Linux believe it or not. Because it isn't multiplatform, I use OOo on both.

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Re: It makes no sense
by Leo S on Sunday 04/Nov/2007, @08:48

Yeah, Office is truly excellent. Openoffice is ok for basic needs, but for anything more advanced I have to turn to MS Office (especially excel is leaps and bounds ahead of calc).

Trying to beat microsoft at their own game is impossible. KOffice needs to be innovative and take a different approach, which I think they are already doing very well. I look forward to 2.0.

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