Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20% of the functionality.

Hi All,

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 17:01 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> No, i think the point is that of that same 20% not everyone uses all of that 
> 20%.  Yes people use different features from each other but all the features 
> they use tend to be fairly basic ones, eg not macros and almost none of the 
> formulas in Excel.  It's all very imprecise of course.  
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 
> 20% of the functionality.
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> Il 17/06/2011 16:33, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions ha scritto:
> > A paragraph that points to pcmag.com's article about "100 Essential Tips
> > for Microsoft Office 2010" list the following "rule":
> > [quote]
> > For most of the world, Microsoft Office 2010 follows the 80/20 rule: 80%
> > of the people use about 20% of the functionality.
> > [unquote]
> >
> > That 80% that is not used by the 80% of the users is what MSO advertised
> > a few years ago that these were the most needed options by users and
> > were most of the advertised "thousands of new functions added" for their
> > next upgraded product. I was told once that of that 80% not used, about
> > 90% of that figured features are used by only 1% of MSO's users. Can
> > anyone spell B.L.O.A.T.
>
> the fact is that the 20% used isn't the same for everybody, for example I use 
> function from 1 to 20 and my friend from 3 to 23 and another friend from 6 to 
> 26, so in the world every function is used by some 20%, this is the why libo' 
> isn't so diffused and used, becouse you can easily find something that you use 
> in office that isn't present in libo'. :-))
>
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I believe that the 80/20 is somewhat misleading. As noted earlier must
use approximately 20% but not the same 20%.

I would estimate that somewhere around 50% of all the features are used
reasonably often and the rest are rarely used. The used features are not
necessarily bloat but should be available either with the package or as
extensions. The selection of which are included is probably best left to
the programmers. I suspect some are easier to added as extensions while
others are best included in the package.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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