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Microsoft Holding Its Ground on Office for Linux | |
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| Time: 13:26 EST/18:26 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft Corp. will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux—or at least make its software more interoperable with open-source desktop productivity suites. "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple [Computer Inc.] in the past, make Office available on Linux," Open Source Development Labs Inc. CEO Stuart Cohen told eWEEK in a recent interview. | ||
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| #1 By 9589 (65.191.133.160) at 9/1/2005 2:20:42 PM |
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Isn't this the same outfit, OSDL, that refused to work with Microsoft on a recent study? So, it begs the question, how is the open sore crowd going to know when, "Linux desktop market share gets to a certain point . . . ?"
OSDL = amateurs at work! lol |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/1/2005 2:51:15 PM |
| #1: what does one thing have to do with another? And it isn't up to the OSDL to determine if there's a market for MS Office for Linux -- that's MS' job. If MS determines that there is money to be made and it's worth their time & effort, then they'll consider it. |
| #3 By 3465 (214.3.116.1) at 9/1/2005 3:21:00 PM |
| Yea, but what people don't realize is that office came to Mac before Windows. |
| #4 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 9/1/2005 3:45:08 PM |
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is this article a joke or something?
a simple sylogism- open source people want free stuff: office will never be free ...ergo there will never be office for linux. |
| #5 By 9589 (65.191.133.160) at 9/1/2005 9:47:33 PM |
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No, oldog, it isn't a joke. It is the tech media's drum beat for open sore.
The first sentence in the article tells all. There are no "promient figures" in the open sore communicty that believe that as enterprises increase their use of open sore on the desktop, Microsoft Corp. will be forced to consider offering a version of Office on open sore or the author would have named them. In fact, the author, later in the article, quotes Tovalds. He tells us that it isn't even ready! If a for profit operating system vendor had a track record of over ten years of failed attempts to make their OS work on the desktop, they would be the laughing stock of the software industry. Yet, we get silence from the tech media on this point. Hey, a cartoon or something! The fact is that there is no registerable installed base of Linux on the desktop or tech media and the open sore crowd would be shouting it to the roof tops. And, their own office productivity "product" Open Office sucks big time. Da Costa knows how to get a story sold. Put Microsoft in the headlines, start the article off with a bunch of lies and half truths, then, back track through to the end of the article. This "news" article structure is often repeated and frankly it is getting tiresome. |
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