Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Mar 2006 21:44 UTC
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers. Heading the list of challenges facing Microsoft is the fact that Office 2007 has a new user interface, which could require extensive staff retraining at a significant cost, as well as a new file format, which has the potential to create compatibility issues.
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2005-11-11
"OO.o is simply not a viable alternative to MSO".
Yes it is.
MSO is simplay not a viable alternative ... period. It is not even interoperable with itself from just a few years back.
Companies cannot afford incompatibilities with their own data formated by MSO a few years ago and be forced to port that data every few years just because Microsoft wants to lock its customers in.
The only viable alternative is a truly open document format that anyone may implement, and most especially one that is not controlled by Microsoft.