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

Sorry, but that example was the only one I remember seeing that was too 
weird to forget.

I know many "high-end" users that need those limited user functions to 
do really "weird" things that I would not have though possible in Word 
or Excel.  Those users are the type that could write books on the least 
know functions of those packages and tell you why you cannot live 
without using them.

What the "average" user, either business or home, needs from an office 
suite is what LibreOffice gives then very well.  The more complex you 
make your documents with more complex functions and formulas for 
spreadsheets, the harder it is to use a package.  It may be even harder 
to write those options for the packages than to use them.

It is nice to have one package that will open up the different modules 
like word processing and spread sheets.  Having to install complete 
packages for each carries a lot of duplication of code and much more 
file space on a hard drive.  But I really do not want my word processor 
to do high end spread sheet work or image editing.  I would rather have 
those functions in different packages [separate install files] or 
separate modules of the unified package [like LibreOffice].

Sure, there is a need to write a package to will give the 20% user base 
what they need.  But sometimes MS seems to go overboard adding 100's or 
even 1000's of new functions whether the user needs/wants them or not.

On 06/17/2011 10:44 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> Lol, i can't believe they are advertising one of the key reasons we give to
> people for walking away from MSO.  Obviously every single user believes they are
> in the 1% that uses too many of the advanced features and so could not possibly
> walk away.
>
> The specific example of not needing spreadsheet functionality inside the
> word-processor is not great.  It does explain the point but LibreOffice (and
> OpenOffice) are more tightly integrated then MSO so the functionality is easier
> to reach without it really being 'inside' the wrong app.  At least that's the
> impression i have.
>
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: [libreoffice-users] MSO's 80/20 rule: 80% of the people use about 20%
> of the functionality.
>
>
> 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.
>
> I hope LibreOffice never has that type of rule applied to their office suite.
> The extensions solve many of the functions that are needed by the small
> percentage of users.  We do not need them to be installed by default.  We do not
> need to be able to do spreadsheet functions in a Writer document, but I was told
> that Word can do that if you knew how to do it properly.  That is bloat for
> rarely function used concept and should not be in a wordprocessing document.
> Copy/Paste a spreadsheet into a Writer document is OK, but we do not need to
> bring all of Calc's function over to Writer so you can user Writer for Calc
> work.


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