Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jul 2005 11:33 UTC
Microsoft is facing an uphill battle to push copies of Office 2003 on customers and its ISV partner ecosystem, ahead of next year's predicted launch of Office 12.
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RE[2]: So what would you do?
by TaterSalad on Thu 21st Jul 2005 13:41
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I thought there was a stripped down version that sometimes gets bundled from the OEMs. I think it just includes word, excel, and outlook. Unless you mean stripping out the features from these applications, which probably wouldn't be too bad of an idea. But MS already did this for word and called it wordpad. Excel could be stripped by taking out goal seek and the scenerio thingy. Outlook, well there is outlook express but please leave a calender in it.
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>OK.. you've just been promoted to run the 'Microsoft
>Office Team'
>
>How would you take the business forward, if at all? or
>would you talk yourself out of a job and say people
>don't need the upgrade
>
>Over to you guys - What now Boss?>
Simple... since your current market is saturated, I would focus on new markets to expand the customer base.
Easiest way to do that is to focus on non-ms operating systems. Make the current versions of office that run on Linux, Solaris, MacOS, etc.
Personally, I also think a stripped down version of office for a LOT less money might sell better than Works. Right now, open office has pretty much taken MSWorks of the radar for anyone who needs a real spreadsheet etc.