OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 2, 2010 @04:07PM from the camel's-head-and-neck dept.

hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine the installed office suites of millions of web users: they look for the availability of characteristic fonts being shipped with the various suites. What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."

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Whoopee doo by Joe+Jay+Bee · 2010-02-02 17:11 · Score: 0, Troll

I can't be the only person who doesn't really, truly care about the market share of a particular product. Really, I don't. 20% of people use the same thing I do? Whoopee doo, what do you want, a paper hat?
It doesn't matter. Let go.

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Re:If you consider... by ThePhilips · 2010-02-02 23:09 · Score: 0, Troll

The reason is, that they both are waaaayyy over their maximum lifespan. They should have had a complete rewrite about 5-10 years ago.

But at least OO.o works. Unlike M$O2k7.

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