-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 alan c wrote: > Someone is getting desperate perhaps? > > I saw a 8 leaf (16 sides) booklet today in a neat container on the > counter of my local computer shop. > Advertising > Microsoft Office. > > For interest in the possible debate about what marketing is, and > differences between technical fact and marketing (expected) practice: > > Some extracts: > ========================== > Microsoft Office > Essential. > Reliable. > Easy. > > Accomplish more each day. > Create great looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations, manage > your email more securely, schedule your day and organise your notes > and information in one place with the 2007 Microsoft Office release. > With the new streamlined interface, more consistent formatting and > improved graphics tools, you can quickly and easily get things done > with confidence. > ========================== > > As a marketing exercise, what do you think of the actual product, what > are they really marketing, can you fault the approach? > > (there are 14 more pages of this sort of stuff)
The keys I find in this text are: It gets the job done quick and reliable, There is something improved, compared to the old version, It will ease my office live, The fault is that it's the same as in Office 2000 and 2003, so no real unique cost saving features. And it will only ease your live if your other office tools are also from Microsoft. Personal suggestions vs. OpenOffice. The streamlined interface is not yet optimised in open office. I have to read dozens of help pages in open office when creating advanced documents. I never have to read MS help, it's all self explaining. OpenOffice is not yet totally reliable, I find bugs every month and documents are visual different on windows and Linux even with open office, also documents created with 2.2.0 are not the same on 2.1.0, so much for a stable open format. So its not perfect and partly open source vs. expensive reliable and easy, and vendor lock-in. But open office will win eventually, I'm optimistic about that! Just my two cents, Best regards, Jelle -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRqegLdVnJQVvY+R5AQIvpwQAgldFPJttM6aQcKPtVyhIR88iFD0qy6yU nDSX1bqbPNtBgBBg3k1Ks0+5vJLwV7TkLTvZ80k7fp8hOSkyKvqb+0etINtcb0BL u6gx9wM4xPX5ksjlBHTPObFz0lwMFpxnRfANLDVKMbW4hbPFSlniagTYX1JfvEn+ IQBTe+7QSag= =vss9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
