Hi all,
2017-01-15 14:18 GMT+01:00 Hagar Delest <delest.ha...@gmail.com>:
> Le 14/01/2017 à 11:58, mabdul a écrit :
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>> Believe me: MS doesn't follow Apache OpenOffice any longer as they know
>> that in the next ~10 years OpenOffice cannot hurt MS. Moreover they have
>> switched to a subscription based model (Office365) latetly to secure
>> their userbase and even increase the earned money by monthly/yearly
>> subscription fees. ("mobile first, cloud first" is their main model now!)
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> +1.
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> So AOO is left with households, perhaps very very small companies and
> education sector. I think that AOO should be the simple choice for schools.
> It should offer the peace of mind with no license issue, no need of a
> package full of features not really needed but sold efficiently by MS. No
> need of permanent internet access, just install it locally.
> It should say: here is a rock solid application that can prepare
> pupils/student to office software. It is not MS Office but there are enough
> similarities to make it a good tool to learn. Like your driving license:
> you learn on a car but you can buy something (very) different. You just
> have to adapt.
> If there is something to make clear, it is the effort needed to adapt from
> AOO to MS Office. I'm not saying it should be a clone but just make the
> transition as smooth as possible, user point of view.
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+1
I think AOO should more promote its modularity and therefore promote the
development/maintain of a a set of important extensions which bring really
important functionnalities, such as, for example : Organon, Anaphraseus
(CAT Tool), extensions to write chemical formulas, administrativ tools,
etc. There is perhaps here an opportunity to mark its difference with MS
Office : a basis (AOO) + important new functions in the form of stable
extensions. Perhaps to go more in the same direction as EuroOffice. There
are already a lot of extensions, but they are not always maintained or have
never reach a real professionnel level or stability. The same with Gallery
extensions for special areas : medicine, botanic, technics etc. which could
be made together through a collaboration with different universities. I
think this could make the difference, giving to AOO an "own personnality"
and therefore an own position on the market.
Regards
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gw
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