Posted on 01/24/2019 8:47:43 PM PST by dayglored
See I’m a visionary. I truly think as the demand for the features in LibreOffice to improve it will get done. More Linux users, more demand. Developers will take heed and get back to work on it if the feature requests and donations start coming back in again.
It has stalled is all, it just needs a kickstart. The minor issues in all this software for Linux can be repaired in very short order. All we need to do is show and convey interest for them to be improved and it will come. And we all win. Starts with user base! :)
Hey, did you know that the Libreoffice that came packed with this cinnamon will open MS word .docx files? I just went and grabbed a couple to try it from my windows partition files to try it.
I think it is cool that while in Linux you can go grab your windows files from out of the windows folders when you have it dual boot like this.
Ditto...
I remember the Wizard as being only during the installation and/or first time it runs. Win2000 and maybe? WinXP.
Or maybe that was the Einstein character. Been a while :-)
Yeah, Open/LibreOffice has had the ability to open and save Office 2007 format files (the ones ending in “x”) for many years. They default to the “Open Document” formats, but you can select Office 2007 format.
It doesn't "run out of the cloud." It's a local application that validates the license over the Internet. It will run with all of its features on a machine with no Internet connection, at least for a while (I think it has to check in with the mothership every 30 days or so).
Software as a subscription service has its pluses and minuses. In a corporate environment, it's a lot easier to make sure everyone stays on the same version, and it's a lot easier than managing licenses separately on hundreds of PCs. The total cost is about the same as if you bought the stand-alone version of every upgrade (which most users and companies didn't, which is why the subscription model is good for the publisher).
I don't see that genie going back into the bottle. Adobe isn't offering stand-alone versions of its Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) or "Document Cloud" (Acrobat Pro) any more. At least for now, it's limited to apps that have a more-or-less monopoly in their segment, but I expect to see more of it.
I wonder if I need to uninstall O365 before installing it from the App Store. I do like the idea of rolling its updates in with the rest of the App Store updates, because Microsoft’s updater is craptactular.
Anticipating the comments, I use Office because my clients use it, and someone else pays for it. I use iWork when I have the choice.
Mac users at work have been using Office 365 for over a year. The PC users are just now making the switch from Office 2013.
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