For a new user, playing with spreadsheets for the first time, to find this out having created some quite big and complicated spreadsheets in OOo was a huge turn-off. My biggest problem with OOo was that it was far too easy to create spreadsheets that simply didn't work for other people looking at them with Excel. Let's hope that the EU will make them open up all specs so that all companies can compete on equal terms. Microsoft is damn good at making sure that it's harder to use competing products than it is to use theirs.

Yes, the filters on OO.o are great, but are they good enough for me or do I have to do some extra work to convert those documents? Most likely there's something that won't work and I'd hate to be the one to explain that I broke document just because I wanted to use OO.o instead of the MS-O that the company provides. This doesn't mean that I can't use OO.o or KPlato or something else, but it does mean that its harder for me to do so. Everything is 'interleaved' or whatever I should call it. Sharepoint connects nicely into MS-Office and so does MS-Project. Documents are put into sharepoint, all documents exchanged are MS-Office and MS-Project is the standard tool.

Now I'm transitioning into project management more and more and in this world, almost everything is Microsoft. I've used OO.o for a few years when doing mostly linux-work.

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