__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 01 June 2007 18:52 \__
> The full-featured OpenOffice productivity suite
>> | is pretty darn impressive (I've used it), and it's completely
>> | free and interoperable with Microsoft Office (not sure about
>> | Office 2007). Why don't more people use it then? Lack of knowing
>> | it exists is a possibility, and having to download the suite or
>> | order it for about $10 on CD may be obstacles. Plus, you can't
>> | find it on Best Buy shelves. If customers start becoming smarter
>> | and find out out about OpenOffice or even Google Inc.'s Google
>> | Apps, could a large piece of Microsoft's kingdom come
>> | crashing down?
>> |
>> |
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> Some vendors are starting to install OpenOffice on new PC's aren't
> they? I think this was one of the requests Dell heard from their
> customers. It's a small advance in the breaking of the Microsoft
> monopoly, but they add up.
Based on an article that I recently read, small PC makers do this. The large
OEMs are still scared of Microsoft, sort of speak. The wrath and the
razor-thin margins...
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