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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2006-02-27
"Microsoft has only changed formats when it was necessary to support new features."
Why are MS supporters so naive and don't look beyond the marketing? Its called LOCK-IN - why don't people understand this horrible feature.
Most of the stuff in MSO is only for a minority % of the user base. Most of the people use these tools for very very simple letters and spreadsheets and they would only use powerpoint to view joke presentations sent via email.
I don't see how anyone can justify buying any version of MSO for 95% of the organisation. Collaboration features are only used between a few people and if they are wise they would only distribute the finished in PDF so why the need to buy MSO for all staff???? OO2_0 does everything for the 95%+. I would count myself in the 95% but use a lot more features than most.
One feature of OO i really like is that i only open OO once, i don't have to open excel/powerpoint/base/drawing separately, i just go to the file menu and open or create a new document of the format i choose and then the relevant program is opened. Whereas in MSO i have to Open Word, then Excel, then Powerpoint thereby making OO a better intergrated package than MSO.
I've never not been able to do something in OO that I could do in MSO. Mind you images in documents stay put in OO whereas its less reliable in Word.