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Right sorry

Nothing for MS to be concerned about here.

Cheap Office replacement not a concern despite getting 17+
percent of new retail sales for the Mac platform.

Everyone of those buying iWork has also bought MS Office. I
don't know any of these people but it is true.

Apple must have expected at least this high a penetration, and
would have been disappointed not to have got near 20% in the
first year with an even better version release on the anniversary.
We're not expecting an even better version from taking away
even more sales.


The way to get to MS is to reduce their margin on the two money
earners: windows and Office.

The competition keeps chipping away and MS has nothing more
to offer, caught like a deer in headlights.

Return head to sand.
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 01/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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And OpenOffice still eats Corel's lunch  Boot_Agnostic | 01/23/06
Sales?  Nigel Johnstone | 01/23/06
Who cares....  nucrash | 01/23/06
Impossible to say  j.m.galvin | 01/23/06
No story here, insignificant  Protector | 01/23/06
Really?  Richard Flude | 01/23/06
New retail sales of a brand new product.  Anton Philidor | 01/23/06
Right sorry  Richard Flude | 01/23/06
Some grain of truth in there  tic swayback | 01/23/06
Apple Users' Preferences  brble | 01/23/06
An Office replacement?  Anton Philidor | 01/24/06
Macs ship with spreadsheet and database  j.m.galvin | 01/24/06
Retail sales only.  Anton Philidor | 01/23/06
Apple's looking for frequent upgrades  Ken_z | 01/23/06
Actually  j.m.galvin | 01/23/06
Don't understand  j.m.galvin | 01/23/06
Questions, questions  tic swayback | 01/23/06
Better speculation  psschroe | 01/23/06
Or will they?  tic swayback | 01/23/06
I think Apple is free do develop iWork  Ken_z | 01/23/06
I'm not sure I understand  brble | 01/23/06
Fair enough  tic swayback | 01/23/06
FileMaker would be a good idea  brble | 01/23/06
Excel is pretty old  Ken_z | 01/23/06
Yep, Excel's been around for a while  brble | 01/23/06
I have stopped using Office...  psschroe | 01/23/06
iWork is better than OO.o anyday ####  SouthernPride | 01/23/06
Things could change  balsover | 01/23/06
Home user doesn't seem to be the focus  NonZealot | 01/23/06
MS already has it  j.m.galvin | 01/24/06
Thanks for that  NonZealot | 01/24/06
Makes sense to me  j.m.galvin | 01/24/06
Incentive  tic swayback | 01/23/06
Wow  Qbt | 01/23/06
well there another side to that  toxicfreak | 01/23/06
Ahhh....ZDNet...you're killin me...stop  IT Scion | 01/23/06
Ah, I see, they didn't actually ASK anybody, they just looked at SALES  escoles@... | 01/24/06
Appleworks has a spreadsheet good enough for most purposes  hipparchus2001 | 01/24/06
Not any more...  cseanor | 01/24/06
They haven't put anything into it in years  j.m.galvin | 01/24/06
Corel needs to port THEIR Office!!  dtillman | 01/24/06
they used to  kiz | 01/24/06
Q: about Linux  Roger Ramjet | 01/24/06
Q: M$ Office  NonZealot | 01/24/06
More accurately  tic swayback | 01/24/06
Probably not  j.m.galvin | 01/24/06

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