MS Dissatisfaction High, Users Consider Switching

chriscooper1470 writes "Almost two-thirds of respondents to a recent InternetWeek Reader Question said they are dissatisfied with Microsoft software, and 41 percent of respondents are at least thinking about switching away from Microsoft software. Only 28 percent of users responding to the poll described themselves as satisfied Microsoft customers. There are some great comments at the bottom of the article discussing why people voted the way they did. My favorite quote: 'At the end of the day, I still wish we had a viable alternative. There isn't one -- yet. We'll keep looking.' - Sure."

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Re:Will this finally make microsoft shape up?

[terraformer]

No, I think something is wrong when 1/2 of their customers would consider a change but don't have viable alternatives* because of their monopolistic activities. * Full Disclosure: I just switched back to a mac and I am still not done buying replacement software. The price of the software is coming up to the price of the 15 TiBook. Remember, software publishers do not consider cross platform switches as upgrades so i am starting from scratch. I am also considering caving and buying MS Office... I have no choice because OO is not there yet on Mac.