It's done wonders for their stock price...
Posted on 07/13/2009 2:33:02 PM PDT by null and void
Sun Microsystems has been offering free office programs for years!
I love competition!
I want my Word program to work... it doesn’t
Friend of mine who runs a small business had been using Microsoft Office for years. Problem was when he bought a new computer last year, it didn’t have MSO installed on it. So I downloaded OpenOffice and installed it for him. He’s been tickled pink because all his documents that he created in Office open properly in OpenOffice without extra add-ons or plug-ins.
Google operates by selling advertising placement.
Microsoft by selling????
Advertising placement
OEMs
Corporate contracts
Software
Subscription based services
Xbox
Games for xbox
Hardware
Not sure what you mean with the ???
Several years ago, the Microsoft Office I'd bought and paid extra for repeatedly crashed my laptop. The last straw was when a paper I wrote corrupted due to a bug in Office, and all of my work was lost.
I started using Star Office/Open Office at the suggestion of a friend, and have never looked back. I have used it on a PC, on my Mac, and now on my Linux laptop.
I have gone out of my way to avoid MS products on computers, phones, gadgets, etc. and have done just fine.
There is literally nothing Microsoft could sell or even give away that I would take or want.
The only problem I had with Open Office was MS kept tweaking MSOffice so that OO wouldn’t open gracefully.
“DOS isn’t done until Lotus don’t run...”
Agreed. It's about time for microsoft too
You'll be able to read, but it will not allow you to edit or save anything. lol
Yup. And they are one step away from being dead and buried.
Nah. You just won’t be able to format any document in anything but what Word thinks is the right format for that document...
LOL. There are already programs out there that do just that.
if microsoft gives away their product for free, what are they actually making a profit?
Google is using thier office product as a cracker jack prize in order to sell ads. (ala network TV thinking they can provide free situation comedies and sell ad space)
It's done wonders for their stock price...
Considering the decades of ugly and predatory business practices inflicted by Micro$oft upon the computing community, not to mention their generally arrogant corporate attitude, the fact that someone is gnawing on their entrails fails to arouse any sympathy in me.
It’s time for a change.
I fail to understand why so many conservatives, who should be supporting free market capitalism, are so down on Microsoft.
Google is a cash rich company that is already using their $$$ to support the new liberal fascism. Their founder/CEO is an Obama insider and adviser. We should be putting our 'clicks' elsewhere...if you must use Google, don't click on the official ad sponsored search result...there is always a non-ad link directly below it.
Google is the new MSM...fight them now. Microsoft is much more benign politically.
Another subscription based service they provide is the Zune Marketplace, where you can download songs for 99 cents and full-length full-season TV shows for $16.
My thinking is, you'll be able to open and edit, you won't be able to save without clicking on a "Buy It Now!!" type of button.
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