[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 23:20 -0500, Chad Smith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"The colors are so KEWL! It's very cool looking!"
Part of me died inside.
Welcome to marketing. :-)
Seriously.
It was like his company had paid many multiple thousands of dollars for the company-wide upgrade, and what do their employees say "Wow! That's pretty!"
I like pretty colors and I love good UI. But if that's it, I ain't paying $250 a head for the upgrade (or however much large companies pay for it).
If OOo 2.0 comes out, and I download and install it. Then a few weeks/months later OOo 2.5 comes out, and the only upgrade is the colors - I may or may not bother getting it, and it is *FREE*. I can't imagine that's the only benefit - but if that's all the employees see/use then effective that's all you've paid for.
Now, to be fair, my roommate mostly deals with Adobe Acrobat, and not Microsoft Office - so people who use Office more often might be more impressed with other features. But still, I'd like a little more ROI than "wow, prudy colors!"
-Chad Smith
