on 7/17/02 8:40 PM, Jeffrey W. Ryan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seemed Steve was feeling a little more independent of the pressure that > MS has on Apple, you know, with Office. Funny though, if so few people are > using Office v.X, what was it...350,000? And there are 2.5 million users are > OS X. So, how important is Office to Mac users in reality? Wouldn't Apple be > able to handle not having Office? People don't by Apple because it runs > Office, that's obvious.
I don't really buy that argument. I know FAR more people using Office 2001 in the Classic Environment than people who have upgraded to Office vX. The figure Kevin Browne mentioned was for Office vX, not the number of people running "Office" in Mac OS X. IMO, the problem for Microsoft isn't necessarily that Apple isn't promoting OS X hard enough, but rather that the Classic Environment works *too* well ;) (at least as far as Office is concerned) Office is *vital* to selling Macs to anyone besides schools and home computer users who don't use Office at work. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
