On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:33 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > "Steve Ballmer has insisted that OpenOffice is a far better rival to > Microsoft's Office than Google's applications suite" > http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/microsoft-open-office-a-bigger-rival-than-google-apps-476243 > > I wonder is he one of the over two million people who have downloaded > OpenOffice.org since we released 3.0?
Possibly not him personally but it would be inconceivable that MS would not take notice of OOo releases in great detail. Google apps will only become a rival if Google put a lot more effort into the Word Processor and Presentation software. The Spreadsheet is much the best component. If they did produce an on-line WP with most of the facilities of Word and Writer I think they would take a significant share of the market. Its a shame we can't do a web version of OOo - the only way I could think to make that work would be thin client logins like with Sun's Global desktop from a web browser but providing that as a free service is a tall order. It would be an interesting experiment though :-) -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
