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Story: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

Posted by: Bobcat (Wednesday 5 October 2005, 9:29 PM)

The REAL question is : WHY do we NEED Office? Office 12 is already DEAD even before it gets released simply because M$ refuses to support Open Doc. The world is going to pass M$ by, so who really needs Office 12?? It is throwing good money after bad.

Let's say that M$ comes to their senses and includes Open Doc. in Office 12 -- who knows amybe M$ will get smart. The question then becomes... Who needs M$'s Office 12??? For those who need hand holding and have tons of money to throw away they might buy into Office 12, but *if* the reason Open Doc, why not buy Sun's Star Office 8 for a fraction of Office 12?? And if you really want to pinch pennies, why not download Open Office??? ( yeah I know support issues, but I said pinch pennies -- if you want software support Star Office is the way to go since it is released by Sun Micro., almost as big a name as IBM and Microsoft ).

"No Office on Linux"?? Linux *does not need Office" to survive, not when it has both Open Office and Star Office. The truth of the matter is -- in M$'s bottom line -- M$ *NEEDS* LINUX, not the other way around. Right now M$ could not *give* Office 12 away, let alone charge an absurd price for it... and it does not yet support Open Doc. And when it does -- as it surly will -- then who wants to pay absurd prices for it??? No, *if* M$ hopes to sell Office 12 they are going to

1) Have to include support for Open Doc., otherwise it is a total waste of money.

2) Actually COMPETE ( maybe for the first time in their lives ) based on PRICE and PERFORMANCE.

3) Actually compete with FOSS that at the current time is MILES ahead of M$ and their buggy software.

In short M$'s hand will be forced to sell Office 12 to Linux users, at a reasonable price. Otherwise, say by-by to M$'s cash cow. If we are REALLY LUCKY.... Maybe M$ will DIE -- we really don't need anymore of M$ buggy, inferior software.