MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind

greengrass writes "In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft, Alan Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS office was around 10 years ago. Supposedly only suitable for the single desktop, isolated user. After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"

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Re:Perhaps it is...

[djeddiej]

Wow. Open Office. Neat. If you don't know how to use Word properly then go ahead, use open office. who really cares. Do we really need to know how you convinced your mother's cousin's pet cat that openoffice is the way to go? Do I need to add another story about how I convinced some like-minded lawyers to simply upgrade their Office to 2003 and avoid the corruption (insert lawyer/corruption joke here). Really, you are beating a duck that is already dead. OpenOffice is free for cheapos. Word is for people who want to buy things. People who don't buy Word will attempt to pirate it or download it on some fileshare site. Or maybe they will just use whatever their company gives them. And really, if you want to put the effort in to make a CSS2 compliant document with notepad, why not just blog your stuff while you are at it? You folks think you're so tough, try using a feather pen and papyrus scroll. Now that's technology.