[belval]

I think libreoffice suffers from a branding style issue more than anything else. It's not like Office 365 is inherently superior, but it looks like it is straight out of 2006 and that negatively impacts the users perception of it.

My hunch is that if maintainers were to invest into making it look more like Office 365 (purely in a cosmetic way), the opposition to using libreoffice would reduce significantly.

And for the old timers that will run to "Office 2007/10/13 was the best version and had the old UI". I get it and agree, but the average person likes nice things that look up-to-date.

[harvie]

This is not really about office suite choice. It's more about custom software that is developed for government for riddiculous amount of money only to be a huge vendor lock-in.

I would like to see how complex the software really is compared to its price and make it possible for other companies to offer maintenance or adding new modules without having to go through the original authors. so basicaly the freedoms government should already have to something they've payed crazy amount of money for.

[seemaze]

Agree with the ‘Oldtimers’ with the exception of the recent additions of LET() LAMBDA() REGEXTRACT() XLOOKUP() etc..

[trinix912]

I'd argue this is not as big of a factor in governments as it is elsewhere (plus, they already use software that's way worse than LO in terms of UI/UX).

It's more that someone somewhere gets their % when selling them the commercial software, be it Microsoft or someone else.