Comment 1268 for bug 1
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| »John« (john.denton) wrote [Bug 1] Microsoft has a majority market share | #1268 |
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> > Choose Windows "If you are new to computers" - a bad joke. Especially when new to computers and not having to deal with old required Windows stuff, it is easier to use Ubuntu.
> Yeah. It is exactly those users that should start with ubuntu, before they get used with Windows.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
> > That said, there are still people sending .doc and .xls files and the like around. This is a virus that has to be stopped also...
> This is a bigger problem then Windows market share. Microsoft Office is one of those things that keeps corporations from switching. Personally I only toss PDF files around. We have to work harder to get people to stop using proprietary formats.
Damn right. Did you know that despite of what most of us probably think,
the M$ flagship product is actually their Office suite? That's one of
the "killer apps" that usually keeps corporate Windown$ users from
switching (the others being CAD and DTP as far as I remember).
I can confirm this using the experience with my cousin - she was so
stuck in her M$ Office ways that the FUD from having to learn something
like OpenOffice alone was more than enough to keep her from even
considering using Ubuntu. Stupid Windown$ was hammering her WLAN card
for no reason like every month or so and she had to keep asking me or
her brother to make it work over and over again, but she still wouldn't
let us help her switch. The funny thing is that the other day my
granddad (hardcore ICT beginner but at the same time a happy user of my
ancient K5 desktop running Xubuntu) needed her help with some document
he just wrote. She came over, got the job done without any major
problems and pretty much got the hang of things in the process. In the
end she told him "You know what? It's really easy to use… but don't tell
John what I just said!". So afraid of my "I told you so…"
So (bundling restrictions aside), offering a good drop-in replacement
for M$ Office will really hammer them!