Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Oct 2005 19:32 UTC
The Microsoft exec in charge of Office has dismissed last week's tie-up between Sun and Google as allusion rather than substance. "That announcement didn't have anything," Chris Capossela, corporate vice president Information Worker Product Management Group of Microsoft told a crowd of reporters last week. "It had something about a toolbar and Java Runtime, and it alluded to a potential thing some time in the future. OpenOffice isn't hard to get, just go to their website and download the software."
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RE: MS Recommending OpenOffice?
by Brad on Tue 11th Oct 2005 03:12
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Its pointing out the obvious. OO.o is free and easy to get. But it's not taking over. Heck MS even points out its not hard to get. Do people run to it? No. Thus MS makes its point. They have nothing to worry about.
They can do that with linux in general. MS could put a URL link on the front page of Microsoft.com to Redhat, Debian, Mandrake and so forth and in big letters say "go ahead, try it, it's free" and not suffer any ill effects. They know that, and thats why they make such a comment.
And he's right, so what did this announcement from Sun and Google mean. Well, no one seamed to come up with a answer yet. So to say there was no substance sounds right.
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just go to their website and download the software.
This sounds like an endorsement to me