<story><title>LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever</title><url>http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>While this is certainly a step in the right direction, it displeases me that the FOSS community is so hostile to the ribbon-style UI  MS uses in its office product. Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.  Frankly, I&amp;#x27;d rather just pay every few years for a home edition of Office than do all the mental gymnastic needed to properly switch to LO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>&amp;gt;Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there&amp;#x27;s a reason why ribbon-style components haven&amp;#x27;t really taken off outside of core Microsoft products. I don&amp;#x27;t think the ribbon is actually that great-looking and I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s that functional.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also a fan of a LO forging it&amp;#x27;s own identity. For far to long Open Office strove to mimic MS Office in look-and-feel.</text></comment>
<story><title>LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever</title><url>http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>While this is certainly a step in the right direction, it displeases me that the FOSS community is so hostile to the ribbon-style UI  MS uses in its office product. Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.  Frankly, I&amp;#x27;d rather just pay every few years for a home edition of Office than do all the mental gymnastic needed to properly switch to LO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s your opinion.  I don&amp;#x27;t like the new MS UI.  In fact, paying for Office every few years means relearning a new UI, or at least relearning where everything is on the menus now.  I find that incredibly frustrating and annoying.&lt;p&gt;My issue with LO is that it doesn&amp;#x27;t work on complex spreadsheets and powerpoints.  I had spreadsheets corrupted and I just had to turn away from LO and go back to Office.  I was much happier in LO, but alas I cannot stay.</text></comment>