I know for a fact that all of us have met people in our lives that don't care about price, they care about functionality and ease of use, and lucky enough for me my dad displays this trait very strongly.
This means that whenever we're buying anything new, he'll always want to make sure that it will work well, not just do what it's supposed to. In this regard, there is no comparison between OpenOffice and MS Office, as OO have yet to release a significant upgrade over several years, while MS has a 3-4 year cycle, sometimes less.
While some do carry the opinion that MS is only doing it to keep profits coming in, that's what most software companies do, so why single MS out for it? Granted it is true in minor cases, it isn't with office 2k7. I've been using it since it came out pretty much, and I find it about twice as productive as previous versions, and my friends are getting jealous of the documents it's able to produce. I don't know if it's the calibri font or what, but printing from office 2007 just looks better in every case, than both previous versions of office and OO.
The windows-linux battle may be raging, but I think this war is over.
I'm sorry but i think we are forgetting a few key things here.
Microsoft is the maker of the software, they made it the way they wanted, and they allowed other companies to build software for it.
Why then should they be forced to not bundle their own software on it? They own the software, not the korean government.
If they want to make it more convenient for people without internet to use their computers then there should be absolutely no problem with that, they have the right to.
Windows Vista will be pretty much what an OS should be, a big block of running processes that cannot be touched my outside code. Every application you install on Vista will be run on something like a virtual OS, running on top of the vista core. Honestly, i detest anti-microsoft villains, and you may critisize such points of view but i don't care. Ignorance is Arrogance.
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I know for a fact that all of us have met people in our lives that don't care about price, they care about functionality and ease of use, and lucky enough for me my dad displays this trait very strongly.
This means that whenever we're buying anything new, he'll always want to make sure that it will work well, not just do what it's supposed to. In this regard, there is no comparison between OpenOffice and MS Office, as OO have yet to release a significant upgrade over several years, while MS has a 3-4 year cycle, sometimes less.
While some do carry the opinion that MS is only doing it to keep profits coming in, that's what most software companies do, so why single MS out for it? Granted it is true in minor cases, it isn't with office 2k7. I've been using it since it came out pretty much, and I find it about twice as productive as previous versions, and my friends are getting jealous of the documents it's able to produce. I don't know if it's the calibri font or what, but printing from office 2007 just looks better in every case, than both previous versions of office and OO.
The windows-linux battle may be raging, but I think this war is over.
I'm sorry but i think we are forgetting a few key things here.
Microsoft is the maker of the software, they made it the way they wanted, and they allowed other companies to build software for it.
Why then should they be forced to not bundle their own software on it? They own the software, not the korean government.
If they want to make it more convenient for people without internet to use their computers then there should be absolutely no problem with that, they have the right to.
if you had 1GB chips for $5 each, it would be $150 for a 30GB hdd not $300....
Windows Vista will be pretty much what an OS should be, a big block of running processes that cannot be touched my outside code. Every application you install on Vista will be run on something like a virtual OS, running on top of the vista core. Honestly, i detest anti-microsoft villains, and you may critisize such points of view but i don't care. Ignorance is Arrogance.