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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Why does software cost so much? Software vendors--and I'm not just talking about Microsoft here--will tell you it is because R&D costs so much. Well R&D does, but Microsoft didn't save up $40 billion of cash in the bank by pumping all its software revenues into research, and something tells me the money didn't all come from sales of keyboards, mice and SideWinder joysticks. | ||
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| #1 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 8/30/2002 11:00:56 AM |
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"You can, if you want, achieve complete Microsoft compatibility for a song, simply by downloading a Linux distribution and the OpenOffice suite. All it costs is the connection time. "
Um, OpenOffice is missing two major apps - an email client and a database - which are included in Microsoft Office. Further OpenOffice has bad Word compatibility. |
| #2 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 8/30/2002 11:23:15 AM |
| Yeah, no kidding about "complete Microsoft compatibility." As stated, that doesn't even make sense, but if even when it comes to MS Office it's plain not true. Supposedly WordPerfect has seamless support for Word as well, but "seamless" apparently means "as long as you don't mind having to reformat half your document." File conversion is never seamless. And good luck with MS Office macros in OpenOffice. |
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