Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Nice Review

On 12/14/2011 01:16 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> http://lifehacker.com/5867623/the-best-word-processing-app-for-windows
>
> This should indeed increase the number of downloads
The "where it falls short" part could be an issue, though.

The 20 second boot-up time is faster than that on my old Vista Laptop, 
with MSO 2003 taking twice as long when I had it on with LO 3.3.1 or 
3.3.2, during some testing I was doing.  Now it is dual boot and do not 
have the drive space to spare for installing MSO 2003 on it and use the 
laptop they way I need.

I never hear of their last "pick" of Q10.

I think the author should have compared boot times of LO with the newest 
MSO.  I bet MSO takes longer to allow you to edit the document, than LO 
needs to be ready to edit it.  That is the real comparison.  Not how 
long it takes to show the document, but how long does it take to go from 
clicking on the icons to the start of editing.  MSO 2003 kept loading 
other things, like agents and sidebars, that I did not need every time I 
loaded a document.  I "turn them off" during the editing and they come 
back when I open MSO again.  LO does not have that issue.  You are in 
more control with enabling/disabling extensions/templates than you are 
with MSO's options.

Someone should write a head to head comparison with MSO 2010, the good 
and the bad.  Someone should include the info of free dictionaries and 
language menus that take more money for MSO and, as far as I know, not 
have an English install on the same machine as a French, Spanish, 
German, etc., menu install for MSO.  LO can switch freely between the 
different menu languages without any more price, except your time to 
download and install the language packs.  By the way, how many 
spell-checking, thesaurus, and other dictionaries does MSO offer, let 
alone free?  LO has over 180 with 20+ localized [by country] Spanish ones.

I am not a writer of these type of articles, but those are some of the 
points that I would give.  Since I have not used any MSO past 2003, 
except for the trial period, I cannot really do a proper comparison 
between LO and MSO.  Sure, LO does not do some things better than MSO.  
LO is not bloated as MSO so it will not do all those 1000's of things 
that takes an expert in MSO to know that they are even there, if not how 
to use them or why they would ever be needed.  I remember an MSO ad that 
claimed several thousand of new features from the old version to the new 
one.  HOW MANY features/options do you use?  Do you really need to have 
your word processor do spreadsheet work inside it?  Bloat is what you 
get from that.  Do you need a full and complex  web page editor inside a 
word processor, especially where it makes such a complex resulting HTML 
file that it is 3 to 10 time larger than a "standard" web page editor 
does?  MSO claims you do, or it just works out that way.  LO can edit 
web pages, but it does not claim to be a web page editor for business 
use, like MSO once did.  Does it still state that?

Well, this post is a little long, but the real thing is:  WE need a 
clear side by side comparison between LO and MSO for the types of things 
that the "average" user [say 90%+/- of the office suite users] at home 
or in business will use them for.  Then we can point to that and say 
here are the facts.  Choose the best package for your needs.  I think LO 
will win out most of the time.



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