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Microsoft bailing on Vista
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The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Hasta la Vista, baby
supersunbird
Honorary Master
Bail! Bail! Bail!
Abe
Expert Member
With a downturn in the economy, people are going to be looking to save money any way they can and the good old MS OS tax may start to feel it. That and I am sure OpenOffice is already biting a bit.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
All hands to deck! We're sinking! 
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
I think Vista bailed on itself when it was still in Beta!
bekdik
Honorary Master
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Microsoft's got several sources of revenue, one of them is their bloated Office suite.
OpenOffice 3 is worth trying out - it can read and write Office2003 and 2007 file formats, and starts up faster than OpenOffice2.x
MyWorld
Executive Member
Open Source vs Propriety?
I would not like to see the demise of MS, because that will make for an unstable OS market with only Linux and Mac left.
Competition is always good, I would just like to see more transparency, more lenient EULAS and competitive pricing.
bekdik
Honorary Master
Open office is an office suite set of programs which runs on, amongst other things, Vista.
Vista is an OS.
Openoffice will not affect Vista sales.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Add to that no more dirty tricks to stop open source programs from communicating with their proprietary junk, then it might work...
Yes, and BMW should make their cars so that I can fit cheap KIA spares in them......
Abe
Expert Member
MS have 2 primary sources of revenue:
1) OS - Vista
2) Office
If either one takes a knock, it puts tremendous pressure on them to get more revenue from the other. In other words, if they start hurting because of a drop in Office sales because of OpenOffice, that makes Windows 7 even more important to their bottom line and crucial to their ongoing success.
Abe
Expert Member
Of course it will, with a suitable alternative on another OS (which is what OpenOffice is), that reduces the lock in.
d0b33
Honorary Master
Let me just say that I am glad I chose to copy/pirate Vista rather than buy it... R3000 would have been waisted.
Linux is my main OS now anyway.
Linux is my main OS now anyway.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Maybe rephrasing that statement of mine would be a better idea?
LOL, no worries, neither one of the two statements will ever come true, so don't bother......