I have not seen specifics on which version of MSO and which older format though. I have occasionally seen comments that the MSOffice does not correctly render older MSO formats. I have an Excel produced spreadsheet that complains about bad xml when MS opens it. Also, Libre seems to handle older MS stuff better than MS. MS Office was always quite a bit faster, but now they are about equal. I will confirm that opening existing documents is much improved. I have been using OO and LibreOffice for years.
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MS also has such a poor history with feature parity and maintaining non windows platforms it just seems unlikely they are going to keep up a Linux version. While that might stem some user adoption and so lead to less contributes/bug reports, a large enough percentage of Linux's user base is anti-MS enough that it should not be able kill it (especially among the pool currently programming and making other contributions). I don't know but I like where this is all going. Maybe Google Docs will slaughter them both in time. I'd bet MS is trying to undercut the grass roots push for better LibreOffice by giving Linux users the "superior" product so they don't need to work as hard on making a competing one. Office suites seem to be hitting a feature ceiling which suggests that LibreOffice will eventually catch up to MS Office. Combined with the fact that Office has largely stagnated on innovative features because there's only so many ways that people can or want to control how text and images appear on a screen or paper. LibreOffice is not at all a viable replacement for Office for people who use Office to it's fullest extent (which is not most home users for sure), but it's making gains little at a time. This looks to me like a good indication of why MS is considering an Office release for Linux (as made news quite recently). We persevered through the anguish with Libre office, but I can tell you that if Libre office is so fundamentally broken after this new update, I won't look back.
Now THIS is a problem that I could understand you complaining about. creating a brand new writer document with a few pictures corrupted continuously (at least every 1/2 an hour) running the latest version of Libre office available 6 months ago. My young kids are more than capable of being able to handle the differences on both tools - and rarely found the differences any challenge at all (insert picture, bold, italic, underline, right justify, insert table, etc).īut. I hope this version is better - am downloading it with crossed fingers. Plus, the re learning that my kids had to do, to differentiate the MS Office on their Macs at school and Libre Office on Ubuntu at home, later replaced by Windoze 7 - I gave up. Unfortunately, Impress failed to impress me. I have tried all flavours of Libre Office till date. And no version of Java correctly handles non-BMP characters in its strings. In comparison, the 32-bit Java 7 Runtime Environment is 123MB. The entire amount of disk space used by Python in the LibreOffice distribution is 14MB in my install. This is the only version with correct handling for the entire current Unicode set - previous versions were buggy with non-BMP characters unless you had a UCS-4 build (which was a waste of memory if you never encountered a non-BMP character). I just had a look and LibreOffice is including Python 3.3 - the latest and most definitely greatest. That means that it's not dependent on the version of Python that is installed in your system (if any) and largely removes the development churn issue. Because python has a very permissive license, it can be (and is) shipped with LibreOffice (for use only by LibreOffice).
Not a big deal on a desktop machine, but what if you want to port to a Rasberry PI? For a c++ codebase that does not seem unreasonable.Īctually, Python does not have to be installed. Not to mention, it's one more thing that needs to be installed.
RedHat for instance, has shipped some very old versions of Python with there distributions - and updating it tends to be difficult because YUM is written in Python. I'm going to add that while I certainly agree that Python is a far better choice than Java, it too is one more thing that must be installed, and a serious downside is that Python is under quite active development. I don't understand why is that a big deal? So now Libre Office depends on Java AND Python.
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