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Time to Kill Microsoft Word?
Allnighterking writes "Apparently the frustration with another Windows Product is starting to reach increasingly visible users. John Dvorak over at ABC News is starting to question if it's time to kill Word With Viable options like Open Office.org available for Windows as well as AbiWord and others. Since they are both using XML as a way to create the documents. Or perhaps dropping a separate application altogether and going with something like X Forms to create a browser based office suite."
This program will eventually lose marketshare, and this has happened before. Remember WordPerfect? And the biggest flaw with Microsoft Office series of applications is that they are buggy and bloated. They also increase vulnerability to virus infections.
The biggest and best reason that Microsoft Office is doomed is of course the price. Office XP Professional, purchased new, costs $579. StarOffice 6 is $75.95. Prices are in US dollars. I am most definately not seeing $500 worth of greater functionality from MS Office over StarOffice.
John Dvorak over at ABC News is starting to question if it's time to kill Word With Viable options like Open Office.org available for Windows as well as AbiWord and others. Since they are both using XML as a way to create the documents. Or perhaps dropping a separate application altogether and going with something like X Forms to create a browser based office suite.
I'm really confused. Is this summary in English?
First of all, the article doesn't actually mention openoffice.org or AbiWord at all.
However, I can't figure out if the person writing the summary was trying to say that or not, because the word "With" is capitalized, but there's no period after "...kill Word[.]"
The rest of the summary doesn't contain a single valid sentence.
I'm not trying to nitpick about grammar here -- I'd honestly like to know what the person writing the summary was trying to say, because it really has nothing to do with the article whatsoever.