LibreOffice

In what way? I haven't had any issues thus far

@Xeogin - I find it crashing quite often on Mac OS..

Ok... I was hoping for some details since I've been thinking of mass deploying it on Macs version 10.6+ through out the organization I work for. Maybe I've just been lucky stability wise since I'm using a new Macbook Pro with 10.8.5.

@Xeogin, Strange - I'm using 10.8.5 on a new Macbook Pro too, but I find it crashing every 4 hours or more.. Very frustrating.. Especially the writer app, but also have issues with spreadsheets.

I'm a frequent open/closer, which might explain it. I'll try keeping a single spreadsheet & doc open today to test if it crashes as well.

I know it's 3.5 years later now. I'm using version 5.3 on a Mac. It's stable for me. However, on scrolling I occassionally see a line of text chopped off, but scrolling further brings it back. Not perfect, but not crashing.

Agreed, stability seems to have improved on Mac..

Until someone sends me a .docx file with an .eps image embedded. It opens the document, but shows only a blank square where the image should be. Otherwise a great product, and as my needs are quite specific, I hope others will realise that Libre Office can replace Microsoft Office in 90% of cases and save (especially public institutions) a ton of money.

Still, i don't really see as something serious. The only serious behind it is that it is free. Hence why I use it. But. It's still very buggy, it still has poor misaligned messy UI where ribbon won't help because made the same poor way, it's still unreliable, something hanging out of nowhere, sometimes hogging CPU out of nowhere. Functionally-wise Calc and Writer are still long behind Excel. Localizations aren't great either.

Of course it's frustrating when Libre hangs. Although I have to say that I've seen that much less from Libre both than in previous versions and from Office 365 which, even the very newest version. I found that enormously frustrating: MS Office 365 not only costs a lot of money, it's made by one of the richest corporations and it often crashes on Windows, which is made by the same company. That's a disgrace. Which leaves us in a world where almost all office suites might crash, and Libre and MS Office both do. So I take Libre because I agree with the philosophy, I've seen a lot of improvement and I've experienced less of the crashing than in the past. As for the ribbon: I don't use it. The functionality of Calc vs Excel? Sure... Excel is ahead. Whether that's a deal-breaker depends on your needs. I don't have anything that Excel can do and Libre can't, but I completely agree that others might.

It might hangs less, but still crashes a lot and quite often. Office 365 is indeed offers total rip off price in developing countries. Business plans can only be afforded by huge corporations. Small business would simply goes bankrupt with Office 365. They should lower prices some 6-8 times down, not 6%,, not 60%, but 6 times in developing countries.

For a home, I switched over to WPS. It does have almost entire OOXML support. LibreOffice OOXML support is very limited and very buggy. Calc for me also unusable. I use tables a lot, but Calc only offer cell ranges. Therefore Data Validation and formulas won't work if they call for table and/or column. Writer also still doesn't offer separated footers and headers, so you can't use Writer with documents, as standards defines footers and headers as separated entity with own dimensions.

It's been over a year since that message. And seem 6.1 only offer a couple dozen of updates made by community. Not sure if Document Foundation is doing anything for LibreOffice now. But hope it won't repeat fate of Thunderbird abandoned by Mozilla.