Per wrote:
Congrats to Microsoft who got there suite "ISO-certified"....
If the vote was "dirty", well it´s not up to me to investigate....
but there are a lot of voices on this mail-list against OOXML, and
Microsoft ad there products in common.. the reasons ??
a big hate to Microsoft, and Windows, an IE, and Ballmer, and Gates,
that the OS is costing money, the Office-suite is costing money, /(as an
example, Adobes products cost a whole lot of money to, but I don´t hear
any comment about that fact)/ and..... etc, etc....
No, it's not because it costs money to use Microsoft products. The
reason is because of the well documented, often illegal methods that
they use to force market share.
I asume that all of these voices never had there fingers on a machine
with Windows or MS-DOS, that they never wrote a letter in the BAD
Microsoft Word, or made a spreadsheet in Excel.. or maybe they have done
this... ;-)
I´m on Win XP, running OO.o, MS Office XP, I have used MS Office since
-93. I think it´s a good suite (for my needs) AND so are OO.o. I´m
looking at Ubuntu, but so far it´s only looks I giving that OS...
If Linux is so much better than Windows, why isn´t everybody switching?
If OO.o is so much better than MS Office suite, why isn´t everybody
switshing??
Many people simply don't know any better. Because of Microsoft dominance
of the industry, they simply haven't had the opportunity.
I mean, zero bucks, to a lot of bucks for MS products..
So it can´t be the price.. so what is it then ???
I thing the answer is marketing, marketing and marketing....
Most common citizens on the planet, plain people, runs a machine with a
version of Windows, legal or not... they run perhaps, MS Works, any MS
Office-suite, legal or not.
If the goal is to get many users that is running OO.o, there must be a
massive marketing, ads and so on.
Lift up the good stuff about OO.o, not that it is ISO-certified etc, and
ALL that other techical-mumbojumbo.. it´s only scares the regular user,
´cause there are a lot of users out there with just a little bit of a
knowledge about computers, trying to learn more about to handle a
computer, and burping up techical crap...
Nah, they don´t get impressed... they don´t give a s**t about that fact..
Take a look at some of the coverage about how OOXML was forced through
ISO to see what MS does to force market share.
Why you should use OpenOffice.org ??? Try to find som many answers to
that question to the person you trying to convince that OO.o is a good
substitute to Microsofts product. And please, do it without the
"tinfoilhat"-look in your face... :-D
And don´t forget... if anyone has paid for his/hers Windows and MS
Office... why should they switch?? ´Cause it´s only suckers that run
MS-products??
Let them run there paid-for products, but point out the good stuff about
OO.o.
Trying to getting in to the business-world is harder... because there
are so many other systems "built on" products from Microsoft. At least
for "larger" business. It should be easier - perhaps - to reach owners
in small business etc.
There is a lot of preassure on the development-team so they are doing a
superb version 3.0, making more people discovering OpenOffice.org.
But, I´m pretty sure, to get more users on OO.o, there has to be more
marketing-activities.... Metro-ads etc.
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