Everyone needs to stop competing with Office and just build a better office.

The truth is, no one needs to be compatible these days. Everyone is either:

- using the same software company-wide, whether it's LO, Google Docs or MS Office

- exporting to PDF when sharing docs with someone outside the organization

The real thing that LO is missing is server side hosting and easy syncing... Until they get that, it's just going to be something used by individuals and small orgs.

I still remember, at my university we had LO installed on lab computers, MS Office was a "requirement" for students to purchase, but most profs simply insisted we simply hand in assignments as Google Docs links because there was incompatibilities between .doc, .docx, the formats made by LO, etc... Google Docs were the only ones that could be shared and be 100% identical on every computer with the link.

If LO had a web hosted solution and provided easy to install server code for organizations, they'd dominate. But they don't...