Forbes Says Vista Not People Ready

Diomedes01 writes "Daniel Lyons has an opinion piece up on Forbes.com about a recent press conference held by Microsoft, and the results are anything but flattering."

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Re:Rejection

[ben there...]

If you are producing large professional documents with tons of linked fields and complex spreadsheet analyses, Open Office is absolutely useless.

MS Office WORKS and it works well. I personally produce over $500,000 worth of professional documents every year. They could charge $2000 for office and I would still buy it, it is peanuts compared to the value of what I produce annually.

In my experience, businesses that produce "large professional documents with tons of linked fields and complex spreadsheet analyses" have a fairly low CMM.

I would suggest analyzing your processes and focusing on databases so your company doesn't have to pay $70,000+ /year for somebody to move fields around in Excel.

You almost certainly don't *need* Word for anything. On the other hand, you probably do need Excel for *some* ad hoc analysis and PowerPoint for presentations.

Re:Why people won't switch ?

[WhiteWolf666]

This is bullshit. I've tested this myself, multiple times.

Take a computer luddite who's semi-used to Windows XP. I don't mean this in a cruel way, but my father (a brilliant post-doc organic chemist), my gf's mom (also smart), my grandma, and our secretary have all been switched to OS X.

They became proficient within a month or so, at a higher level than their ability to use Windows after _years_ of usage.

Windows is a UI nightmare. Windows is not intuitive or easy to use.