>>20254022
I use Microsoft Office because I need to actually get shit done and I'm not a fat fucking freetard faggot

Do either of these support 64bit Windows? I ask here because I just got back from the IBM website and found out Lotus Symphony doesn't support Windows 7 64bit.

>>20254030
Get shit done? Let me guess, you sit on your ass and type short stories about ponies and fucking men in the ass?

>Oracle

>>20254054
Haha, nice projection.

>>20254055
>Not explaining

Well, I used to use openoffice, then I heard that the majority of its developers moved to LibreOffice, and I'd rather use the one that they're developing.

Also, I can feel a noticeable difference in their performance, with LibreOffice being better.

>>20254054
I can feel your mad over here

>>20254030
I drafted my last book using LibreOffice.
It's now being published.
Your point is?

>>20254066
Google the word Oracle or just talk to one FOSStard ever

>>20254070
>my book is being published

And I'm fucking a member of the British Royal Family and have Obama's private number on speed dial

>>20254066
Oracle 'purchased' OpenOffice then dropped support for it; Openoffice was better until they did this but now LibreOffice leads.

>>20254082
Go to bed Charles

>>20254082
Actually it is.
The initial print run is only 1000 copies and I earn basically nothing.

>>20254076
That would be funny if you had included a better image.

>>20254101
Why is this unrealistic to you - people write books all the time.

Microsoft Office. Everything else is a cheap imitation.

Cause I don't want to wait 20 seconds to open a doc file.

>>20254134
It's unrealistic because it's an activity that does not involve posting on 4chan, fapping to cartoon images or playing Battlefag 3. Unpossible.

>>20254147
I'll admit it - I laughed.

OpenOffice.

Anything with the word "open" in its name sounds like a great piece of software. Libre sounds faggoty.

Can't understand why in the world people use this shit when they can use Office. Incase you fucktards didn't know, MS Office works on wine also.

>>20254066
Oracle hates freedom

>>20254201
Just no.

>>20254070
as someone who studied book science I can only say that writing programs don't support acceptable options to design typography as seen in "real" books, justification won't do shit. We used Adobe InDesign for books and it was pretty cool, don't know if there's a freeware tool to do this but I hope so. Whatever, NEVER do typography in word or openoffice.

>>20254201
I used it to draft, not to typeset.
My publisher took care of that.

>>20254082
You do know lot's of people publish books right? I'm helping write my school's math book right now, but I'm a graduate student, so maybe it's different.

>>20254092
And it will continue to lead because all contributions are moving to it.

OpenOffice is dead, use LibreOffice and move on, people.

>>20254201
Because It's shit.
>UI IS PURTY! xD
That doesn't make my documents any better, and I find it easier and faster to use LibreOffice's UI.
>MICRUSUFT CAN INTO .DUCX
So does LibreOffice, and it can also into many other better standarts.
>LOL BLOAT IS FUN! >2011 >NOT HAVING 9999 PETABYTES OF RAM LUL xD
Bloated piece of shit.

>>20254231
Scribus is supposed to be a decent open source layout application.
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

>>20254231
Scribus... but it's slow as fuck.-

>>20254231
>book science

>>20254201
Only a non-linux user wouldn't understand why native software should be fully explored before using emulated software. I've tried to use MS Office in WINE before, and it cannot be dealt with while doing serious projects.

>>20254265
yeah, today we have books on demand and lulu, I'm pretty sure most anons published a book there once, even if it's just a compilation of dick pics.

>use Openoffice
>never converts/opens MS file formats properly
>hear about LibreOffice
>try it out
>file formats work properly
Fuck you Oracle

>>20254284
>>20254286
thank you guys, I'll try that out

>>20254313
Thank you too father... you fucking fuck.. thank you for beating my ass all the fucking time.. thank you for stealing my fucking childhood... you SICK FUCK

>>20254294
>MS Office over Wine
>Emulated software
I don't think you know how Wine works

>No Oracle
>More Libre
>Less Java
>GTK-Free version avaiable
>Many bug fixed over OpenOffice
>Some new stuff

>>20254421
I think I don't know how TERMS work. I don't care what it's called, but I know exactly how it works. Feel free to correct my term usage though.

Open office is so bloat.

Libre has more open development than Open
Libre has more features
Libre has more bugfixes
I'm a freetard

Open Office is DEAD, all the developers migrated to Libre Office after Oracle tried to be a dick. No active development is going on with Open Office, Libre Office is very actively developed.

I used Open Office for two main reasons:
1) I didn't want to deal with MS Office.
2) I needed an office suit for Linux.

It was a horrible experience, it rarely worked how it had to and using MS Office formats (because the rest of the world is retarded) always came out bad.

I tried LibreOffice and it was day and night. I think it's better than MS Office too.

because LibreOffice is LIBRE

because Oracle

I use ms office because it's the standard and I'm not a faggot

openoffice is obsolete, there is no question. liboffice 3.3 is the same as openoffice 3.3 but while OOo is stuck forever, liboffice gets better every day.

>>20254843
>Closed standards
>Not faggotry

>>20254068
I thought this was common knowledge but apparently not.
Oracle doesn't give two shits about Open Office or any other open source project they acquired when they bought out Sun.

I use MS Office 2010 because it is superior in every way except being free.

Thank god for piracy.

>>20254881
What type of documents do you create?

>>20254892
Pony fanfic.