The real reason they won't port office to Linux however, isn't about speed or reliability but simply because Office on Linux just wouldn't sell.
Microsoft has an effective monopoly in two areas: operating systems and office software. They are also the only two divisions within Microsoft that are profitable, and support all of their other ventures into PDAs, game consoles, set top boxes, smartphones, and on and on. Office on Linux might not sell to college kid hackers running Linux on their Alienware machines, but Office on Linux would be a powerful incentive for corporate customers to seriously consider rolling out Linux desktops in the enterprise. Therefore, Microsoft will never port Office to Linux.
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The real reason they won't port office to Linux however, isn't about speed or reliability but simply because Office on Linux just wouldn't sell.
Microsoft has an effective monopoly in two areas: operating systems and office software. They are also the only two divisions within Microsoft that are profitable, and support all of their other ventures into PDAs, game consoles, set top boxes, smartphones, and on and on. Office on Linux might not sell to college kid hackers running Linux on their Alienware machines, but Office on Linux would be a powerful incentive for corporate customers to seriously consider rolling out Linux desktops in the enterprise. Therefore, Microsoft will never port Office to Linux.