Marketing, marketing, marketing.
Do you really trust all what you just told?
Looks as if you are a Microsoft employee making and ad of the whole company.
It's the same as when a bad politician promises lots of benefits if you vote for him.... and you happen to do! after having suffered the real bad things he is capable to do (and to hide).
1.- nil training cost for MS? YOu are for sure meaning people that learns BASICS of MS Office and that won't go beyond that point. Otherwise, you WILL need to pay costs (very high costs). On the other hand, you seem to mean also to stay with old versions (that won't work for more than a couple of years, when you would see yourself on the needing of replacing your MS products... then retraining). Not to mention the great business it is for MS whenever a new version or "service pack" is released in terms of retrainning, recertifying and so on. Big business for Microsoft! Not for their users.
I think that some of the real reasons why companies buy MS were perfectly replied by Bartmoss (16109). Companies are afraid of using other better technologies because Microsoft sells very well also its "support" product (even 'though it's as bad as the software itself).
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Marketing, marketing, marketing. Do you really trust all what you just told? Looks as if you are a Microsoft employee making and ad of the whole company. It's the same as when a bad politician promises lots of benefits if you vote for him.... and you happen to do! after having suffered the real bad things he is capable to do (and to hide).
1.- nil training cost for MS? YOu are for sure meaning people that learns BASICS of MS Office and that won't go beyond that point. Otherwise, you WILL need to pay costs (very high costs). On the other hand, you seem to mean also to stay with old versions (that won't work for more than a couple of years, when you would see yourself on the needing of replacing your MS products... then retraining). Not to mention the great business it is for MS whenever a new version or "service pack" is released in terms of retrainning, recertifying and so on. Big business for Microsoft! Not for their users. I think that some of the real reasons why companies buy MS were perfectly replied by Bartmoss (16109). Companies are afraid of using other better technologies because Microsoft sells very well also its "support" product (even 'though it's as bad as the software itself).