Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

Hi :)
+1  
Extensions/add-ons are a great way of keeping unnecessary features out of the way of the majority 
users that never need certain features.  

I think the generally used stats are that 80% of users know about less than 20% of features in MS 
Office.  That's not a different 20% for each user adding up to 100% amoungst 5 users.  It's more 
the case that if you stripped MSO down to 20% of it's features then 80% of people wouldn't notice 
anything missing.  In terms of actual usage and from just observations and conversations with 
individuals i would agree with Tim about it being more like 1% of features being used 99% of the 
time.  People tend to not use most of what they know and they don't know much.  They focus on just 
getting the job done, not on fancy ways of doing it.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





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> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 14:05
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as  MSO 2013.
>
> On 01/29/2013 09:41 AM, Urmas wrote:
> > > It is weird that a version of LO comes out the same week as the newest MSO after a 3 year wait 
> > > between versions. I am glad LibreOffice does not make you wait 2 or 3 years between versions.
> >
> > And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003. But apparently it 
> > requires actual work instead of bumping version numbers.
>
> Although this thread, which I started is not for the MSO/LO debate, I will rebut you comment.  
> This debate will be better to have its own thread, like many others in the past about this same 
> subject of "parity of features".
>
> The big issue I have with that statement is - if LibreOffice was to have the same features that 
> MSO has, then it would be a massive bloated software. The figures I have been given is that 99% of 
> MSO's features are used by less than 1% of its users.  Maybe one day LibreOffice will have an 
> "extended" version with all of the features MSO has, but that is unlikely.
>
> Well, LO could have these features. They could be done by the "extensions" idea.  That is what it 
> was created for.  It gives developers the ability to create more functions for LO to be added as 
> needed.  I have seen something in the lists that make me believe that the 4.0.x line will make it 
> easier to add these extended functions to LO.
>
> The original concept, IMHO, is that LibreOffice was never going to be a "clone" of MSO.  TDF did 
> not want to push the developers to make LO have all of the functions that makes MSO a bloated and 
> slower package to start up.  The last time I used MSO, it took almost 5 minutes to start up 
> completely to the point where I could edit the text.  LibreOffice does this in a few seconds on 
> the same system.  ALSO, if you have all of those functions, then you will need to deal with all of 
> them when you do a big "UI" modification or other base code modification, to make sure it all 
> works properly. That is one reason why MSO takes years between versions.
>
>
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