Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Jun 2007 10:23 UTC
The KOffice team has released KOffice 1.6.3. "This is the last maintenance release of the 1.6 series, containing mainly bug fixes. There are bug fixes for almost all of the components. See the complete changelog for the complete information."
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Oh, no, I don't criticize it. I love KOffice with its problems. I really like it and use more KWord than Writer (in fact, I never really use Writer except when opening some doc KWord cannot read well). I find KWord a good word processor. Import/export filters suck a bit.
KSpread, in the other hand, even if it has its uses, has been bitten by some severe bugs that affected calculations. It's difficult to trust a calculator that has miscalculated before. So you have to be careful when sharing sheets with others, because the results could be terrible. It happened to me with OpenOffice and its LOOKUPV (I think) function which worked well with OpenOffice, but the implementation was different in MS Office, thus rendering the results incorrect when opened by a MS Office user. A total mess. I could not tell which implementation was wrong (probably Excel's one), but it doesn't matter after all.
It's not easy to share spreadsheets among different implementations and have the correct results, no matter what people think; you could have a mess in your hands, trust it and never find about it. I wonder how many people out there are haveing these problems without knowing.
To close, spreadsheets are a different animal than other office applications. The results may vary greatly depending on the functions used and how they are used/implemented. So, for me KSpread is not a choice. Probably Calc wouldn't if my life depended on it.