Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:47 UTC
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux. "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple in the past, make Office available on Linux," CEO Stuart Cohen of OSDL said in an interview. My take: Mr. Cohen is forgetting two important things: Excel was first released for the Mac (1985) and Word wasn't popular until MS ported it from DOS to Mac (1985).
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2005-07-06
You're making the incorrect assumption that they would make a 100% native version, when the most likely scenario will be porting Office to Mainsoft's Windows to UNIX Win32 transition API - which would be the most likely scenario.