LibreOffice 5.0 Review & Rating | PCMag.com

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List Ahoy:

It is perturbing to see that different parties can click on the same link, and see dramatically different results.

We have been blaming it on an antipodal bias, but now Mike Scott weighs in from the near-arctic with the same distortion.

I don't know how to find the Firefox "page info" he cites, but its May, 2013 date is telling.

The Micro$$ hagiography I see is definitely 5.0, starting off with:

"By Edward Mendelson <http://www.pcmag.com/author-bio/edward-mendelson>

LibreOffice, the leading free desktop-style alternative to Microsoft Office <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383731,00.asp>$81.78 at Amazon <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418419,00.asp?mailing_id=1431647&mailing=whatsnewnow&mailingID=E2768DCC83E0602F9C1DB70A73032992#>, just got a new version number, a more modern-looking interface, improved import and export filters, and a vast number of bug fixes. But don't get the idea that LibreOffice 5.0 is massively different from the previous version (4.4), or that if you're not using LibreOffice now, version 5.0 will make you want it. However, if you or your business can't afford or don't want to use a proprietary, for-pay office suite, LibreOffice 5.0 is your best bet.

*Version Confusion*
Until late in its development, LibreOffice 5.0 was known by the version number 4.5. If you're using version 4.x now, version 5.0 is a smooth, mostly hassle-free upgrade. If you tried LibreOffice 4.x and found it wanting, the new version won't change your mind."

Does Bro Scott have an ancestral bias for the Fatal Shore powerful enough to invert the internet?

trj

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I don't know how to find the Firefox "page info" he cites, but its May,
2013 date is telling.

Right-click in the page and pick 'page info'.

There's something unusual about the site (clearly!) -- I've just tried an ancient IE in a VM -- it puts up the "4.0" page with a couple of warning dialogue boxes, one saying about a secure connection, and one that it can't open the page (???!!! even though it did!). When I close them, the page clears to a 'cannot display' message; although by a bit of fiddling, it's persuadable to continue to show the wrong page. Weird.

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Does Bro Scott have an ancestral bias for the Fatal Shore powerful
enough to invert the internet?

Nope. Gaelic ancestry if anything (or so I'm told). Does that count?

I wonder if they've redundant servers with load balancing, and one's out of sync.