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Philo P. Shagnasty wrote:
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> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
> news:7r21hnFfupU22@mid.individual.net...
>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 187:44 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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>>> Bob pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>
>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/office-compatibility-torture-
>> test-302?page=0,0
>>>>
>>>> Too bad.
>>>
>>> Yeah. Poor MS Office. It's not free. So you can't tell your friends
>>> to download it and use it and its formats instead, like you can with
>>> OpenOffice.
>>>
>>> I dub thee "Boner Bob".
>>
>> And the other side of the coin, of course, is that OO does a hell of a
>> lot better with MS formats than MS does with OO formats!
>
> The important thing to remember: MS doesn't need to worry about OO
> formats because 99.999999% of the world uses Microsoft Office!
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>
>
99.999999% of the world doesn't have a computer, much less use MS
Office. Of those who do use Office, over 70% are pirated. MS Office
started its slow death with the release of Office 07.
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>
>
> "ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
> news:7r21hnFfupU22@mid.individual.net...
>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 187:44 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Bob pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>
>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/office-compatibility-torture-
>> test-302?page=0,0
>>>>
>>>> Too bad.
>>>
>>> Yeah. Poor MS Office. It's not free. So you can't tell your friends
>>> to download it and use it and its formats instead, like you can with
>>> OpenOffice.
>>>
>>> I dub thee "Boner Bob".
>>
>> And the other side of the coin, of course, is that OO does a hell of a
>> lot better with MS formats than MS does with OO formats!
>
> The important thing to remember: MS doesn't need to worry about OO
> formats because 99.999999% of the world uses Microsoft Office!
>
>
>
99.999999% of the world doesn't have a computer, much less use MS
Office. Of those who do use Office, over 70% are pirated. MS Office
started its slow death with the release of Office 07.
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