At some level the interface itself becomes more important than the inner workings. If someone swapped the gas and brake pedals in a car it would not be an easy change to adapt to. Sure, the car still works the same and there may be some reason it is technically "better," but the end user might hate it.
To continue on your analogy, I don't think a switch between OO.o and MSO can be compared to swapping the brake- and gas-pedals in a car. More like the difference between an old car and a new one. An old Volvo has the reverse gear to the top left and a new to the bottom right. When you try to put the stick in the bottom right position in the old car it won't go there, you'll just have to try the top left instead.
Swapping the brake- and gas-pedals will be more like switching from MSO to writing pure XML in VIM and formatting it with CSS.
( Using both VIM and OO.o;) )
People tend to use at home what they use at school/office. So if their school/office made the switch to OO.o, it wouldn't take long before they threw out MSOffice in favor of OO.o at home too.
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At some level the interface itself becomes more important than the inner workings. If someone swapped the gas and brake pedals in a car it would not be an easy change to adapt to. Sure, the car still works the same and there may be some reason it is technically "better," but the end user might hate it.
;) )
To continue on your analogy, I don't think a switch between OO.o and MSO can be compared to swapping the brake- and gas-pedals in a car. More like the difference between an old car and a new one. An old Volvo has the reverse gear to the top left and a new to the bottom right. When you try to put the stick in the bottom right position in the old car it won't go there, you'll just have to try the top left instead.
Swapping the brake- and gas-pedals will be more like switching from MSO to writing pure XML in VIM and formatting it with CSS. ( Using both VIM and OO.o
People tend to use at home what they use at school/office. So if their school/office made the switch to OO.o, it wouldn't take long before they threw out MSOffice in favor of OO.o at home too.