In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS
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on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:24:19 -0400
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
>>
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>>> Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business
>>> launch
>>> on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
>>> Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
>>> the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
>>> ever disaster.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
>
>
> Other quotes from the article:
>
> "...Office 2007 could well be a disaster that Microsoft has created for
> itself."
I for one don't see how. Most Microsoft updates just go
in transparently (and rather sneakily).
>
> "the new version...is headed for a giant obstacle with major sites in both
> the public and private sector."
Some explanation will be needed here. Is there a format
incompatibility? No doubt previous versions of MS
Office have already been summarily patched to allow for
compatibility with O2007.
Microsoft may do a mistake once, but it's doubtful they'll
do it again here.
>
> "Dr Hodgkinson is fairly positive about the prospects in large enterprises
> of open source office productivity alternatives to Microsoft Office, such as
> Open Office.org 2.0." heh! This is a keeper.
OO does not meet my needs. At best, it's a MS Word viewer.
At worst, it's nothing.
(Not that MSOffice meets my needs, either...but there are
packages out there to view MS Word files that don't need
the bulk of OO.)
>
> "...Dr Hodgkinson believes the signs are ominous for the fate of Office
> 2007."
News Flash!
Death of Windows/the Internet/Microsoft/Earth predicted yet again!
No film at 11.
>
> "This may well be the biggest disaster Microsoft has ever created for
> itself."
>
>
>
> He's about as prescient as you cola nutcases - no wonder he's "recently
> departed".
*shrug*
>
> ------
> | "Office 2007 reaped twice the amount of U.S. consumer dollars
> | during its launch week than Office 2003"
> |
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=1EL0PYUND4QNWQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197006187&_requestid=309515
> ------
>
>
> ------
> | Sales of Office 2007 are doing even better, up 100 percent compared with
> sales of
> | Office 2003 in its initial months. That led Office to account for 17
> percent
> | (by dollar volume) of all software sold at retail stores last year.
> | "It's a huge hit," Swenson said.
> http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9861625-56.html
> ------
>
>
> The good Dr. probably walked around the office on his last day mumbling
> "2008 will be The Year of Linux"
>
2038, you mean, and that's only because that's
(time_t) 0x80000000, which will make Y2K look like
a picnic if we don't convert to 64bit.
Fortunately, Linux 64 bit versions are available, as are
Windows 64 bit versions. (Not sure how well the latter
actually *work*, but Windows' timestructures at least
aren't going to be bitten by that particular bug -- AFAIK.)
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