Hi :) At one place i work, a charity, they have been able to buy legit copies of MSO 2010 for £20 rather than the usual approx £100. Word is unable to handle making the Newsletter and LibreOffice can do it with much more finesse but even though i have installed LibreOffice on their machines they prefer to work with Word and it's glossy new ribbon.
On the older machines MSO 2007 was desperately slow. Opening a document requires taking a tea-break or falling asleep. LibreOffice just opens stuff before even drumming fingers once. They seem to think that if the proper price is £100 than it must be a lot better than something that is free despite the evidence. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmas...@krackedpress.com> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article > To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 1:11 > > There is only one person that I know/met/talked-with > locally, for sure that uses Linux and it is maybe 3 for > Mac. Everyone else is a Windows person. Every > one of them that I have a relationship with, I have done my > best to get them to try LO. Only one I did not push, > since he had several large personal Access databases built > with MSO 97. [Pentium II computer] When I gave him a > free P-III computer, I had to find a copy of MSO, since he > lost his copy I gave him all those years ago, since I went > to MSO 2003. He just could not deal with using LO for > his database files, for now. When I find him a free > P-4 machine with enough spare drive space, I will have both > MSO and LO on that system for him to use. > > So, he is the only one of all the Windows users that told > me that they would not give LO [OOo before January] a > try. Many of these people have dumped MSO entirely, > while others use MSO when OOo/LO does not work "properly" > for them, and only a few are only using MSO at this time. > > So I know if we can get the software in their hands, > install it for them if we must, they will give it a > try. I just wish I could get the local schools to > include LO, but they have these big budget MSO contracts > that they "cannot" get out of. Also since "everyone is > using MSO" then they have to teach on that package. > Well the parents, students, and anyone else who has to buy > MSO at their high prices [who do not need to deal with > Access] would be happy to find a package that does what they > need and saves the files in MSO file formats for the > teachers, that is free and is becoming better and better > every few months. > > The problem is how to get the word out to the masses. > With my stroked-out brain, I am not a public speaker. > If I was, I would "hire" the lecture hall at the main branch > of the Library system to do a demonstration of LO and hand > out free copies. Then have an ad in every library > board and every free posting place [respectable ones] to > give the date, time, etc.. The problem is I am no > longer able to talk my talk anymore. I could barely do > it before my last stroke, and I did one on Web page creation > for personal use. > > I sure could use some ideas to get the local users of MSO > to know about our free alternative. > > On 10/18/2011 06:03 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > On 10/18/11 6:51 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press > Productions wrote: > > > >> For Windows users, we need to find some way to get > into shows and such > >> to convince these users to use LO. If we can > somehow get some of these > >> Tech magazines to include LO in one of their > included CD/DVD of software > >> that seems to come out every so often, we might > pick up a few [or many] > >> users. > > We already reach covermount CDs in several countries, > and we should add > > editors in all countries. People can help in building > a mailing list by > > sending us email address of editorial staff of > magazines with a CD (the > > address is usually printed somewhere on the editorial > staff page). > > > >> It would be nice if we somehow could get some > banner ad time on Google, > >> or other place that people go to often. I do > not deal with the social > >> networks, but there has to be some way we can get > the word out to the > >> Windows users. > > Addressing Windows users take more time than Linux and > MacOS. Downloads > > are slowly increasing, and this show the increasing > interest of users. > > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
