> Libreoffice is unacceptably broken in a thousand small ways
Of course, based on my painful experience, MS Word is also broken in a thousand small ways. Whether this breakage qualifies as "unacceptable" I dunno; I guess people are used to it and so have learned to avoid much of it. Yay? ><
In this context, where MS-Word is a de facto standard for various administration, "broken" means "not behaving like MS-Word". Which is perhaps the only test which MS-Word passes with flying colors.
Alas, the post-"Vista-fication" version of MS Office doesn't even behave like MS Office.
Amusing anecdote: I have 2 teenage daughters. They used to complain about having to use Open/Libre Office at home. Then the school "upgraded" Office to the newer Vista/7 compatible version. "See, kids, it does suck, just like Dad said" (I got the "upgrade" at work about the same time). After which, the version at school was so different, anyway, that they just kinda got over it and went "whatever".
I think the difference between your broken and his broken is that his are actual bugs & crashes and yours are actually more like personal preferences and interface differences.
MS Office products are generally rock solid, while OpenOffice/LibreOffice have crashed on me too many times to count. Plus buggy functionality, etc.
I might be wrong, some examples from both sides wouldn't hurt :)
Of course, based on my painful experience, MS Word is also broken in a thousand small ways. Whether this breakage qualifies as "unacceptable" I dunno; I guess people are used to it and so have learned to avoid much of it. Yay? ><