RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

I followed up on Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 already.  For additional comparison, here are the 
corresponding details for Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0.

The Microsoft Office Save As ... format cases are
 Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (*.doc)
 Microsoft Word 95 (*.doc)
 Microsoft Word 6.0 (*.doc)
 Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
 Microsoft Word 2003 XML (*.xml)

The only other formats are .odt, .ott, .sxw, .stw, .txt (two flavors), and .html

Some folks notice the loss of WordPerfect conversions.  I haven't seen much on the inability to 
export OOXML formats.

I suppose an elephant in the room, at least for Windows platforms, is the possibility that the next 
version of Office (currently known as Office 15) might provide better interoperability with ODF 
formats than the *Office clan provide for OOXML.  I have no reason to believe that will be the 
case, despite the opportunity that appears to exist for tipping the equation around business use 
even farther.  

Also interesting is the fact that Windows Live SkyDrive now supports native (and free) web-based 
upload, editing, and download of ODF documents at something around the current ODF 1.1 support from 
Microsoft.  It will be interesting to see how that evolves along with the arrival of Office 15 too. 
 This is a way to extend support for Office documents to non-Windows platforms using browsers and 
the cloud.

[On my WindowsPhone 7.5, the Microsoft Office applications are still only for Microsoft Office 
documents, although OneNote is being provided as an App on other mobile platforms.  If I attempt to 
edit an ODF document that I've uploaded to Skydrive, my phone switches to the browser access for 
editing the document.  That could change too.]

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Wilson [mailto:russwilsonau@yahoo.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 20:30
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

it's been some months since I tried it; I think there are supposed to be some "added extras", but 
they're all "much the same", depends on what features one wants / needs, and most importantly, 
"what works" for you, which as someone said, one can only determine subjectively, after trying it 
out for oneself




> ________________________________
> From: Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 2:12 PM
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?
>
> On 6/4/12 4:00 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
> > why? further complicate the issue, Aoo works
>
> I was curious as to whether Lotus Symphony was identical to Aoo, or if there were things that were 
> better or worse in that release.
>
>
> -- Ken
>
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> Thunderbird 12.0.1
> LibreOffice 3.5.2.2
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