On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 20:22, plino <[email protected]> wrote:

> > ODF support is present in MS Office 2007 SP2 and MS Office 2010 (it
> > even can be selected as default file format) so what would be your
> > target?
>
>
> MS Office 2003 and older? It does not look reasonable to me,
> > because by the time we develop something useable, only a minority of
> > users will use such old versions of MS Office.
> >
>
> I didn't know that. I'm still a Office 2003 user (and don't intend to
> switch
> to a newer version)
> The famous "ribbon" interface just wasted my time. That is why I love that
> LO has a menu interface PLUS Office 2007/2010 format support (for those
> colleagues who insist on having the latest...) and 1 million lines in Calc
> :)
>
> Forget all I said about ODF Add-ons. Even if the Office 2003 user base is
> large enough now (MS never reveals these numbers, do they? :) ) I agree
> that
> it would not make sense to start such a project now for a product that will
> be unsupported soon (ish... in 2014).
>
> Please concentrate on the updates then :)
>
> Cheers,
> Pedro


I have said it several times, LO should make a light version with Write,
Calc & Presentation ONLY that is available for all platforms including
Androids, iPhones & iPads. There ODF could win a lot of momentum, for the
moment Thinkfree is getting it write, saddly it is a proprietary SW.

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