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People stay with Windows as it's better.

Outside of these boards and the industry in general, Not a great many people (in reference to to all computing in general) know or care about Linux / Open Office.

And according to what I've read and seen, people still pay for MS Office over free WP on new systems, so why would Open Office be any different.
Posted by: John Zern   Posted on: 03/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Man, Google comes out swinging like this, Microsoft will get excited.  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
Lets not single out Microsoft  Loverock Davidson | 03/09/06
Yes, let's single out MS, they have a lot more to lose than anybody else.  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
But what about the Web version of MSOffice?  John Zern | 03/10/06
however it's unlikely that the current office profit margin will continue  hipparchus2001 | 03/10/06
But, if MS Office market share goes down, that will take away one of the  DonnieBoy | 03/10/06
Not really  John Zern | 03/10/06
software is wierd sometimes  hipparchus2001 | 03/10/06
oh yeah and the phone i mentioned weights about 100 grammes!!!  hipparchus2001 | 03/10/06
Lets not  Loverock Davidson | 03/10/06
Yes, an who will lose the most from consumers and small business going to  DonnieBoy | 03/10/06
Thats common sense  Loverock Davidson | 03/10/06
Knowing Google's support for OO . . .  DangDaCommonCentz | 03/10/06
sync to gdrive, edit locally in OO or remotely in writely  hipparchus2001 | 03/10/06
You're absolutely correct!  John Zern | 03/10/06
It is NOT just Linux users that have Google accounts or use Google search  DonnieBoy | 03/10/06
Eh  java.user | 03/10/06
spreadsheet next?  tucana | 03/09/06
Online spread sheet  John Zern | 03/10/06
information collection  dwest_z | 03/10/06
They should also bring Dan Bricklin and wikiCalc on board as well.  DonnieBoy | 03/10/06
Mac User  pepetoo@... | 03/09/06
I thought MSFT was buying them?  Chad_z | 03/11/06

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