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On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:23:45 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Last time I checked, if you want an office suite, you can buy MS Office
> or...
>
> ...uh, yeah, exactly. It's not that MS Office is good enough that nobody
> will pay to switch. It's that there's nothing to switch *to*.
Corel. OpenOffice. There are options for many people.
> Like I
> say, MS carefully arranges it so that users have no alternatives. That
> way they don't have to waste money on, say, making a product that people
> want to use.
>
> (Although there is hope. Give it another 5 years or so, maybe OpenOffice
> will become good...)
I use OpenOffice every day. It's good.
Jim
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