On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected] > wrote:
> The sales success of Microsoft Office and Office 365 suggest that > "(almost) everyone" is inaccurate IMHO for me this is not (and has never been) an valid argument. People "Buy MS Office" because: 1. they have tons of documents written in Microsoft's file formats, 2. because only Microsoft Office guarantees file read/write compatibility with MS Office documents 3. because they were trained in MS Office and 90% of the tutorials you find on the web are about "how to do [x]" in MS Office, not LO, and not AOO 4. Because "it's the standard" and the business/organization has been buying "MS Office" since the beginning of (IT) times... So, basically, it's all about leverage and vendor lock-in. I haven't met a single MS Office user who rushed to the store to buy MS Office licenses because of the lovely Ribbon UI... Of course, my $0.02... FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell
