Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 17, 2010 @04:10PM from the run-for-the-hills dept.

GMGruman writes "A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice. But why is Microsoft so intent on damaging the FOSS desktop productivity suite, which has just a tiny market share? Rodrigues figured out the real reason by noting who Microsoft quoted to slam OpenOffice: businesses in emerging markets such as Eastern Europe that aren't already so invested in Office licenses and know-how. In other words, the customers Microsoft doesn't have yet and now fears it never will."

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Crack smokers by pyster · 2010-10-18 00:19 · Score: 1, Troll

Its been a while since I have said this... but the user comments make me want to smoke crack. Openoffice is unusable crap, and with the recent issues with the forking, and Oracle's recent lets screw open source movements, the FUD of using or adopting it is founded in in obvious. So many of the comments around this were basic ignorant of the facts hippy douchebag bullshit. None of you seem to actually understand how office suites are used in the workplace.

I've been using openoffice at home for a little over a year for word processing and spreadsheets, and I have to say that MS-WORKS was more enjoyable to use.