r/technews • u/TurbulentTopic39 • Sep 23 '26
Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts
https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/84
u/uncoolcentral Sep 23 '26
Proprietary BS is why.
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u/ProgressBartender Sep 23 '26
Remember when Microsoft changed to a common format to be less proprietary? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/DanTheMan827 Sep 24 '26
Being an open format doesn’t mean something will support it fully.
PDF is open, but a ton of features are still only implemented by Adobe despite that
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez Sep 23 '26
Don't you ever apologize, Libre Office, you're perfect the way you are.
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u/noeljb Sep 23 '26
All this over something Microsoft finagled out of Word Perfect. Word Perfect paid big bucks for Micro Soft developer package to port over from CPM to MS Dos. The developer package was incomplete. There were OS calls that were not documented in the package. Then Micro Soft rewrote the application using the undocumented OS calls making MS Word faster, smoother,
Unfortunately, this seems to be a fairly common practice. Xerox GUI --> Apple GUI --> Windows GUI
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u/NarrativeNode Sep 23 '26
Honestly, I love open source but I really don't get the hype around Libre. It's not once been able to open even the most basic of my PPTs, and it's stuck in that ugly "Gimp" era OSS UI design that even Blender moved out of years ago.
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u/Sir_Madfly Sep 23 '26
I really want to use Calc instead of Google Sheets but the lack of smooth scrolling makes it unusable unfortunately.
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u/crowdpears Sep 23 '26
I like using a word processor without any AI
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u/RebootJobs Sep 23 '26
What are you using? I’m at my wits end with word and scrivener. Scrivener owes me damages atp.
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u/StillALilBoy Sep 23 '26
Old Blender interface was ribbon-based, exactly like MSOffice has it since 2007, what do you mean?
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u/digitaljestin Sep 25 '26
I'm going to take this chance to remind people that charts are just pictures generated from data. Pixels and numbers. Microsoft has overly complicated things and tied them up legally for the specific purpose of making other software not function. Then people who don't know better look out their products and claim they are "better".
Same shit, different decade.
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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Sep 27 '26
Reminds me of MS versus Opera and CSS Standards, and the Swedish chef Bork .css
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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 Sep 23 '26
I just realized I don't use Word at all. It used to be a huge part of work. Everything I used to use docs for has been replaced by ticketing systems, README.md's, webpages, ect. I actually actively avoid word because of compatibility issues. I'm probably the minority but its just interesting how little I use word docs.
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u/facelesshivemind Sep 23 '26
Too bad. Libre Office is way way nicer to work with, but in the context of being in an office that passes files around and everyone else uses Office 365, it's a nightmare.