" Marketing is the ONLY thing that MSFT does well,...."
If OO.o IS SO OUTSTANDING, why doesn´t everyone using it??... I mean...
what better marketing-trix is an totally free, Office-app!!
Is it not good enough??
Is it lack of marketing OO.o ???
Don´t people know about OO.o?
Can´t they handle it?
I don´t know, but I hope that more computer users will find OO.o.
How can we get people to use OO.o?? By spreading the speach of the
excellent office-suite and a give when needed helping hand...
Here in Sweden there was an period that people could "rent" a computer
from their job, there was a payoff of 36 months and then you could pay a
little sum to get the computer. In these machines there was WIN XP and
MS Office and sometimes even MS Works was installed (as a bonus?? )
It´s hard to talk people into an other track and to get them to use an
other Officesuite... why should they change ?? They already got MS
Office... !! A familiar Office suite they are used to...
So OO.o must be a KILLER APP, making the users of MS Office willing to
change... But I think that there must be a some sort like-ness to MSO,
´cause it will make a quick change of office suites no fuzz and "grey
hair". People NOT USED to OO.o must easily find what they are used to in
there MS Office suite.
Maybe I´m wrong.... maybe I´m right, but anyway... having a 3 World War
against or not against ribbons, will probably not give OO.o more users....
I´m using both MSO and OO.o... They both have their weaknesses and so on...
I also having a dual boot with Ubuntu and Win XP...
I like the free alternatives, cause they not looked in to different
formats etc. and I like to learn something new, like Ubuntu.
I´m moving more and more from MS products into Ubuntu-world.
And finally, a link... http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815
Here you can download a PDF file....
/Keith Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, takes a programmer's
approach in "Software Wars," attempting to systematically build a case
that free software can help pave the way for a 21st-century renaissance
in many fields ranging from artificial intelligence (cars that drive
themselves) to the human journey into space (space elevators). For Mr.
Curtis, free software is all about leveraging our collective intelligence."/
Interesting reading.
/hope you could read my stumbelin english.. ;-) /
// Per
John Boyle skrev:
Lars Nooden wrote:
Nice dodge, Henri. If you have only the unlucky misfortune to appear
accidently as deIcaza types intent on floundering the UI, then that is
unfortunate.
Let's check if there is any commmon ground:
Quick quiz:
Q: What is the goal of OOo?
a) a deIcaza-style M$ love-in, dutifully copying every
aspect of MSO
b) providing a good productivity suite
c) other - elaborat
-Lars
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To ALL: I echo Lars concerns, and wish that the developers would
concentrate on eliminating ALL the Bugs, errors and other problems with
what is NOW in existence, AND NEVER COPY ANYTHING FROM MSFT, AS THAT
WILL DESTROY OOo completely!!! I now have OOo ver.3.1 and do not plan on
EVER upgrading, as, to make it plain, unless I get full mastery of what
I have now! What I CANNOT understand is WHY this constant and continual
upgrade, upgrade, when all that is needed is simple changes to improve
what is NOW a BASICALLY sound program! The Real Reason that MSFT
continues to have the majority of the market is very simple, THEY GOT
THERE FIRST AND MADE THEIR PRODUCT WITH THE IDEA OF LOCKING PEOPLE IN TO
THEIR LINE, REGARDLESS! I have tried WordStar, which I thought was
pretty good, but they had let it fade away by not making corrections in
what they had, nor would they adapt it to fit the other major lock-in
that MSFT had, WINDOWS! So, I went to WordPerfect, but then they decided
to try to molly-coddle and befriend MSFT instead of paying attention to
perfecting what they had! Marketing is the ONLY thing that MSFT does
well, that and thievery of other people's ideas!Oh, that's right, not
thievery, muscle them into submission is more like it!
There was a company or group working on another clone or modification of
Windows, but so far they are not a viable alternative to WINDOWS! The
company that really let everyone down was IBM, with their abandining of
Both OS/2 and VIA VOICE FOR LINUX! In fact, IBM cannot seem to learn how
to market and to hang on to their market, no matter what!
The ONLY real alternative to WINDOWS is Linux, but I can tell you they
will never overcome MSFT with all the different "distro's" cutting each
other's throats and then cutting their own, by constant upgrade, upgrade
and then more upgrade!
Bottom line, there are people who are still using DOS and Windows 3.1
and do NOT bother with the Internet! Change is fine when it really is
necessary, but change for change sake is a total WASTE !!!!
