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Microsoft's biggest Office XP fear: Pirates | |
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| Time: 03:21 EST/08:21 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Julien Jay | ||
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When Microsoft releases Office XP in a few months, the company will face off against its two toughest competitors: software pirates and, well, Microsoft. On one front, Microsoft must convince as many as 120 million Office 95 and 97 users to upgrade to the new version, an opportunity customers passed on with Office 2000. On the other front, the Redmond, Wash.-based company must combat lost sales to casual and professional pirates. In North America alone, potentially one out of every four copies of Office is pirated, meaning it was copied illegally. "Microsoft's biggest competitor may in fact be software pirates, just as their biggest competitor is their installed base," said Prudential Securities analyst James Lucier. He said that with so many different versions of Office or Windows available, "there's just no adequate incentive for people to move up." | ||
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| #1 By 182 (Unknown) at 3/9/2001 4:45:00 PM |
| First of all, MacOS crashes every bit as often as Windows 9x, and significantly more often than NT-based code. Second, they can charge whatever they wish for Office. Remember that this software does not pop out of the sky; programmers, some of the best in the world, have to work very hard to put this out, and they deserve to be paid well for their time. It's a simple function of supply and demand; the demand for Office is high; the supply is limited (one supplier). Therefore the price is high. Very simple economics, actually. The allegation that Windows is copied from Mac is absurd. There is not one shred of evidence in support of it, and plenty indicating that it is not true. It's been argued so many times that if people don't realize its falsehood by now, there is no point in attempting the argument. |
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