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My text:

Your counterclaim:

Mismatch.

Windows 7 comes with no desktop Office suite to speak of. It has no spreadsheet, and a poxy word-processing applet called Wordpad.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=930

Whoop de doo. Oh, and BTW the anaemic text editor applet is broken on Windows 7. How does one break a text editor applet (especially one as basic as Notepad)?



Your opinion. Millions of people would claim otherwise. For example, if you were to purchase the expensive but ubiquitous proprietary Office suite additional aftermarket software for Windows 7, you would still find that you were lacking workable support for Opendocument format, which is the only viable cross-platform-capable Office suite format. OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, which comes with Kubuntu/Ubuntu at no cost, and which has about 25% of the installed base of Office suites, is arguably a better Office suite than the expensive aftermarket MS Office add-on for Windows 7.

There is no set of applications, for any platform, that will fully suit all use cases.



Nope. 90% of the people have never heard of Linux, or at least have never tried it. 0.0001% of the people are very determined to try to keep it that way, and they show up reliably on threads such as this.

Edited 2009-11-03 10:01 UTC

Here is a quick summary of why this is so, for people who would desperately try to that claim this is not so:

http://why.openoffice.org/index.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_great.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_easy.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_free.html

Remember, we are comparing this to Wordpad, Paint and Calc.

As I said, Kubuntu/Ubuntu comes with vastly more and better quality desktop software than Windows 7.

QED.

http://why.openoffice.org/why_sme.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_gov.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_edu.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_nfp.html
http://why.openoffice.org/why_oem.html

Aw, heck, why not:

http://why.openoffice.org/why_foss.html

Edited 2009-11-03 10:25 UTC

First of all ... it is irrelevant what software is installed along with the OS and second OpenOffice runs under Windows too, and indeed it is a worthy alternative of MS Office (I, personally, use it exclusively for the past 3-4 years).

In fact almost all the good open source application run under Windows. Can you say the same about all the good proprietary applications running under Linux?