John T Sylvanis wrote:
Short of being Warren Buffet or Bill Gates or Paul Allen and being
able to hire your own development team to give you what you want, you're
stuck with what's available. :-) >>
That's exactly what my point is: we're stuck with whatever the
manufacturers offer us. And they don't fasten the pace of development
because they don't have to. Microsoft was first to offer the Office suite
and that's why WordPerfect and their suite don't have market share. They
[snip]
WordPerfect doesn't have market share because Microsoft for many years
gave such a sweet deal to computer manufacturers who licensed windows,
if they also licensed Office.
Pure economic strong-arm tactics forced Office onto millions of
computers that otherwise the owners would have had to look at the actual
features and capabilities of various competing word processors, database
managers, spreadsheets.
You seem to be thinking that Office has such a huge market penetration
because it actually offers the users what they want. I don't think
that's the case.
--
David H. Bailey
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