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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