Re: [Sheflug] Microsoft's Strategy for Office 2010

[David Holden <dh@xxxxxxxx>]

On 13/05/10 10:36, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Looks like the 100 millionth download of OpenOffice.org announced last 
> October at www.openoffice.org and the competition which is provided by 
> Google Docs is proving to be a good thing.... in that Microsoft now 
> have to suffer from competition....
> 
> "  Microsoft now has competition, most notably from old rival Google 
> with its range of free (for consumers) or cheap (for companies) online 
> applications.   These days "it is very hard to sell an office suite to 
> consumers", says Sheri McLeish, an analyst with technology consulting 
> firm Forrester. Most have some version of Office on their computer, she 
> says, and for everybody else "there is a huge choice of free 
> alternatives".   "The influence of Google" on the consumer market, she 
> says, "means that Microsoft is not as dominant anymore."  "
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10109254.stm
> 
> I stopped using their products on a personal level back in 1999.  I 
> still have to put up with the curse of winduhs hell when I travel to 
> somewhere without my GNU/Linux netbook but thanks to Wi-Fi this 
> exposure to some seriously nasty grot is minimised when I do have my 
> netbook with me.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 


Add to this the fact they are being trounced in the mobile market by
Apple and now Android and Microsoft are going to have to concentrate on
the quality of their products much more than relying on their lock as
they've done in the past.

Dave.

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