On: LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

[hippich]

while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "catch up with microsoft" game all the time - wasting resources which otherwise could be poured into making product itself nicer, which in turn will convince users to switch based on features, not just on the fact, that it is free. I hope my idea make sense :)

I guess balance between two is necessary. You can't totally ignore MS formats, but focusing only on it - will stale this project.

[frozenport → hippich]

Its not a moving target because old versions of office must open documents from new versions.

[Karunamon → frozenport]

I've still got Word '97 documents where Writer frags the table formatting...

[grandinj → Karunamon]

If you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)

[Karunamon → grandinj]

I'd really love to, but in both cases where this has happened, the documents are very very private :(

[hackbinary → Karunamon]

Perhaps you could anonymize the data?

[yuhong → hackbinary]

Or send it in private email.