[marketing] Article: US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws

US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21729/53/

Hosted, and generally free, office applications are being touted as a 
big threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop, but a survey of US 
Internet consumers found that free desktop based office apps like 
OpenOffice are what Microsoft should fear most. For now at least.

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Re: [marketing] Article: US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

2008-11-17 Thread Nguyen Vu Hung
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21729/53/

 Hosted, and generally free, office applications are being touted as a big
 threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop, but a survey of US Internet
 consumers found that free desktop based office apps like OpenOffice are what
 Microsoft should fear most. For now at least.

Great media coverage,

FYI, OpenOffice.org recently has been slashdotted.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1958234

I've read nearly all the comments but I didn't find anything new:
Users do care about how fast they can start OOo and
the UI must be eye-catching...


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Re: [marketing] Article: US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

2008-11-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:32 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
 US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs
 
 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21729/53/
 
 Hosted, and generally free, office applications are being touted as a 
 big threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop, but a survey of US 
 Internet consumers found that free desktop based office apps like 
 OpenOffice are what Microsoft should fear most. For now at least.
 ... 

Until there is an free on-line clone of MS Office :-)

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