Richard Rasker wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
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>> | OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word
>> | processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are utilitarian,
>> | complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of modern life, used
>> | daily by individuals and businesses all over the world.
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> Sorry to tell you, but this doesn't even get close. OO.o is still just a
> nice software product, but with no real inroads yet. OK as an alternative,
> and most people who try it like it, but it's just a piece of Open Source
> just like Firefox. Sure, it's a cause for mild concern for Microsoft, but
> it's not yet a real threat. No real numbers are involved yet.
Let's see some real numbers:
Firefox is number one in Finland - all versions added together.
IE is number two.
Would you say that dropping from over 95% to below 45% is only of mild
concern for Microsoft? No, I didn't think either.
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Timo Pirinen
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