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Story: Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but worth it'
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 14 July 2004, 1:58 AM)
If you move to Linux you can't run MS Office and no IT Director who wants to keep his job is going to ditch the productivity tool that all his employees and senior execs are familiar with, or the tool that all the suppliers, partners and competitors are using.
As soon as a senior exec finds he can't do something on OpenOffice that he/she can do in MS Office its game over for whoever suggested the move, no matter how much it saves in licensing costs.
Linux will never make it onto the desktop in buisiness.
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Story: Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but worth it'
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Isn't the fact that migration to Linux is disrupti... Andy -
microsoft would argue that windows is more us... Anonymous -
If you move to Linux you can't run MS Of... Anonymous -
Ever heard of Crossover Office? Or... Andy -
>>Open Office and Star Office... Anonymous
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Open Office/Star Office and the Lin... Anonymous
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if you dont know whats going on behind t... Anonymous
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Longhorn will give up the only reas... Andrew Hughes
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MS Office has been thoroughly... Anonymous
