[Alupis]

> This is one step closer towards an effective full Office Suite on Linux

Are you referring to Microsoft Office specifically?

LibreOffice is a full-fledged office suite, is feature-complete for just about 99% of things you can do in MS Office, is free (both, as in beer and freedom), and runs very well under Linux.

[scholia]

I don't think the two are comparable. LibreOffice is still a rather poor (in my view) 1990s office suite. Office 365 is a modern ecosystem that includes a more powerful suite of office programs with much better ease of use, a 50GB mailbox, 1TB of online storage, the great integration of email, OneDrive and online software, the ability to stream Office programs without installing local copies, plus the cross-platform tablet and smartphone apps (ie including Apple and Android).

Buy Office 365 Home and you get all that for five people, which could mean your family or flatmates.

You can't get all that stuff from LibreOffice. As a matter of fact, you can't get it from Google either.

[urda]

> LibreOffice is a full-fledged office suite, is feature-complete for just about 99% of things you can do in MS Office

Did you seriously just compare LibreOffice to MS Office? Look I'm a huge Linux fan, but buggy LibreOffice is nowhere near this imaginary "99% feature matched" you've spit out here. The performance is also a joke when it comes to LibreOffice.

As much as the open source camps would like to believe, Microsoft still hast them beat in the Office sector.

[bduerst]

I've noticed a considerable performance difference between Excel 2013 and the latest LibreOffice Calc, on my dual boot Ubuntu + Win8 PC.

While I'm not saying a Linux port of Office would be just as fast as on Win8, it is a noticeable difference.

[Alupis]

> While I'm not saying a Linux port of Office would be just as fast as on Win8

Why would it not be as fast on Linux?

[timelined]

Yes, I was referring to Microsoft Office in the comment.

I've used LibreOffice for years while running Linux before. I noticed perfomance issues compared to Microsoft Office on Windows that were especially bad for spreadsheets.

I consider myself to be a power-user of MS Office. Last time I used LibreOffice, it did not have many of the features that I used extensively (especially in their PowerPoint analog). In addition, the interoperability between MS Office and LibreOffice was not great.

Lastly--there isn't an adequate OneNote replacement on Linux. Evernote doesn't cut it for me. This is really my killer app--if there was a good OneNote on Linux (non-browser, a native desktop app), I could deal with the other issues as they came up.

[sturakov]

+1 for the onenote issue. I spent a lot of time looking for alternatives on linux and didn't find anything close either. It's one of the tipping reasons I use Windows.