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

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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