On 7/18/02 9:10 AM, Dan Frakes said: > 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)
This sounds right to me. I think many people are running OS X but not upgrading to Office X because the Classic version works for them and the upgrade price was, IMHO, fairly hefty (I paid it for my personal computer). > Office is *vital* to selling Macs to anyone besides schools and home > computer users who don't use Office at work. Even in schools, universities at least. While most my colleagues who use Macs would continue even without Office, it's very hard to function in an academic setting without Word. Many of us rely increasingly on Powerpoint for conference presentations, class instruction, etc., and I don't see any competition there. Of course, in the university environment the price of Office is less of a factor if you let the university buy a site license for you. Our price at my university is now around $50/CPU. -- Sherman Wilcox -- 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/>
