Microsoft is spreading FUD around again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdykNa2IBU&feature=player_embedded
Some ideas for making a successful product, from MS: 1. Make sure the funky format that it produces can only be understood by your product. That means once your customer is hooked, they are hooked for forever. Now it's time to say: There is no interop in OpenOffice. 2. Make sure you mention there is no one backs the open-source counterpart. Once you have a bug in an OSS product you're left in the cold. 3. Make sure to mention tech support people in general, don't like anything new. 4. Make it dramatic by adding creepy background music to your clip. It's funny that (1) is a real problem. I've talked with a guy who backs IT for AUF (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie) about a year ago about this problem. He said he enforced everyone in AUF to use ODF as the official format, and interop was never a problem. It's only a problem when you choose to implement a proprietary product and a proprietary format in large scale in the first place. - H. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
