LibreOffice -- Whats the plan?

[HDave]

I've been using LibreOffice for a few months now and find myself still wondering the same thing I used to think with OpenOffice.

When are these guys going to really make this thing nice? Where nice means:
1) Clean, modern UI
2) Fast and responsive
3) Highly interoperable with MS Office

I am not trying to start a flame war, but I cannot find any information on a long term plan to make it as easy to use and slick as MS Office.

I did find version 3.4 release notes here:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4

But its a mish-mash of misc issues. I keep trying to get the folks at my company to switch to OpenOffice / LibreOffice, but the response I get is always the same "yuck."

I think if LibreOffice could compete/interoperate with MS Office, I could switch a TON of people to Ubuntu Desktops.

[marl30]

I must admit that I was a bit disappointed when I read what they had planned for 3.4 which they said is expected to be their next major release. I haven't seen anything to shout about. However, we can still give them the benefit of the doubt since the project is not even a year old as yet.

I don't agree though that improving LO will attract more people to Ubuntu/Linux. It's a bit more complicated than it.