Am i wrong, or is this a pretty important sign you're in trouble when you feel the need to do things like this?Originally Posted by Tom's Hardware
Am i wrong, or is this a pretty important sign you're in trouble when you feel the need to do things like this?Originally Posted by Tom's Hardware
No, you're right. This is huge.
But I think the implementation is going to be key.
OpenOffice is already out there. And it's free. So if M$ wants to charge for their product, it can't be crippled in any way, and completely compatible with the windows version. And *that* means they give up on using Office as a tool to force people to windows...
Well........ Yes?
Win8 has not been the failure Vista was, but neither has it been the success Win7 IS. I'm sure Redmond is aware of Linux's market penetration with Ubuntu spearheading the consumer sector. Where they are really stupid is believing they have even a snowball's chance in hell of any commercial success porting M$ Office to any free Open-Source platform. M$ has major competition from the likes of LibreOffice & OpenOffice, although the latter isn't well maintained. Both of these offerings work. Both import M$ proprietary file formats and both are FREE. And if you have paying attention, M$ is changing the licensing of Office to an annual fee. And if you have visited M$'s download center, you will have noticed they revamped it. Now every download listing includes its price! Obviously M$ intends to start charging for downloads at some point in the future. Sorry Redmond, I am not nearly that dependent on your bloatware to allow you to nickle and dime me into abject poverty..... EVER!
The other venue where Redmond has fallen woefully behind is Games on Linux. Games drove M$'s consumer market penetration dynamo beginning in the mid 80's. Apparently they have completely forgotten that lesson. Corporate arrogance maybe?
I still believe M$ will be nothing more then a memory in 5~10 years.... or so.
Last edited by Fire$torm; 02-08-13 at 12:49 AM.
An Outlook port might be interesting, but otherwise...
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