[xtanx]

If it was up to me, I would try to reach 99.999% compatibility with ms word first then do anything else. Both doc and docx formats.

If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

Then funding would come and then they would have all the resources to build awesome UIs.

[linopolus]

> If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

as good as won't be enough for migration, as it's work to migrate, learn a new interface, bear all thats different.

Without a better UI, even better functionality may not be enough to convince people. UI is the first thing one sees..

[xtanx]

The problem is that if a user opens a word file and it is different in writer than it is in word (where they created it) they will not even take the time to notice the nice UI, they will dismiss writer entirely as unreliable.