Nonnegligible part of MS success is trading with corporation. Users knows that MS Office is a lot of hot air, but their emplyoer buys the SW and they have to use it.
Not saying anything, but sometimes one could ask if a bribe does not help a deal. With this goes the costs - if I pay for a rolls-royce, I should get a roll-royce, it's clear. Look at all the Apple users paying overpriced devices and services. On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 17:03, RobertoG <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... è pura verità ! > > RobertoG > > > > Il 06/04/2023 12:06, Italo Vignoli ha scritto: > > All major releases of Microsoft Office are managed by marketing, as > > all major releases of proprietary software and hardware companies, and > > not by developers, and are based on what you call "marketing tricks". > > > > By the way, marketing is a profession - as development - which is > > based on a specific professional background, and on a mindset which is > > 100% different from the mindset of a developer. > > > > This is probably the reason why developers, and in general people with > > a strong technical background, do not understand marketing and > > consider it useless. Marketing is the opposite of science, and is > > based on behaviour analisys (which is the "least scientific" science, > > although some people are trying to "smuggle" it as science). > > > > I have been a marketing executive for the last 42 years (since 1981), > > and the best marketing strategies I have managed during that time have > > been based on gut feelings (including the launch of Photoshop and PDF, > > when I was a marketing consultant for Adobe, and they both were huge > > success). > > > > Given that Microsoft Office's market share is well over 50%, it looks > > like users of office suites do like marketing tricks. Please remember > > that around 98% of users are not able to judge features. > > > > I am not contributing to QA for a very simple reason: I am not able to > > understand if the software behaviour is right or wrong (unless is > > clear as in the case of font embedding in macOS), and this is because > > I am not interested in technical details but I look at the wider picture. > > > > Even if I am technically illiterate, outside the open source > > environment I am considered a geek because I usually am more competent > > than 98% of "normal" software users. > > > > It should be clear that 80% (and probably more) of what we communicate > > is targeted to "normal" software users, and not to community members > > or to people with a technical background, who are already using > > LibreOffice (or refuse to use it for technical reasons). They are not > > our target, given that office suites are commodities. > > > > Our target is mis-informed and mis-educated by Microsoft, but doesn't > > realize it. On the contrary, they trust Microsoft more than they trust > > open source software. > > > -- > Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus > Avast. > www.avast.com > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
