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:eWeek: Life Without MS Office Isn't So Tough
eWeek: Life Without MS Office Isn't So Tough
Aug 21, 2004, 02 :30 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (6787 reads)

(Other stories by David Coursey)

[ Thanks to Nicholas Donovan for this link. ]

"The only reason most companies buy Microsoft Office is because they've convinced themselves that they can't live without it. More should try that--and in the process, force Microsoft to do a better job of earning its money.

"The other reason why companies keep buying MS Office is because they already have so much of it installed that adding some WordPerfect or StarOffice to the mix is more trouble than it's worth..."

Complete Story

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I have been using the OpenOffice.org off ...   OpenOffice.org   
horne
Aug 21, 2004, 02:54:27
 
Microsoft's TCO (total cost of owner ...   Other reasons...   
K.Reinholdt
Aug 21, 2004, 05:58:03
 
I've tried OO.o on occasion. I gener ...   RE: OpenOffice.org   
azazel
Aug 21, 2004, 12:52:36
 
my gawd.. i think someone else wrote tha ...   Is that the real David Coursey??   
Nipper
Aug 21, 2004, 13:19:03
 
David Coursey must have found his sense  ...   Sense Button   
Abe
Aug 21, 2004, 18:47:07
 
... some little things : 1) In a corp en ...   However good - you need to factor in ...   
linux__boy
Aug 23, 2004, 13:57:08
 
> I've tried OO.o on occasion. I gen ...   Re: RE: OpenOffice.org   
wsd
Aug 23, 2004, 14:09:40
 
For word processing/document creation, t ...   there's more to this than word processing   
Harlan Grove
Aug 23, 2004, 17:17:54
 
> Then there's Outlook, which is tec ...   Re: there's more to this than word processing   
Nicholas Donovan
Aug 27, 2004, 19:44:00
 
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