True to some extent, but how many folks do 8-10 hours "head - down" into
Word, Excel, etc? I would guess that most users are casual, real-time,
sporadic users who need information formed or transformed for a real
world process versus a database repository.
Training is a non-issue. There is enough cross-over knowledge and
enough Help online that it becomes noise. If basic usage of a general
user application can't be taught in less than one day it shouldn't be in
the marketplace.
Businesses will do what is in their "best" (read: profit-making)
interest in the long run. All that is needed is to have a single
shareholder ask the CEO how much money they paid to MS in any given
fiscal year at the next stockholders meeting. This would be quickly
followed by a shareholder's lawsuit for fiscal irresponsibility. If
that doesn't do it, the number of viruses and bugs coming via MS Office
apps account for innumerable dollars and hours and resources wasted with
an increasing rather than decreasing trend.
My personal opinion is that if you can't deal with change you probably
shouldn't be using technology.
Deepankar Datta wrote:
It’s hard to beat Office king
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/12870363.htm
"I recently reviewed OpenOffice 2.0 — a free competitor to Microsoft
Office — and found it to be very good. It uses the OpenDocuments format
and opens most Office documents with minor problems.
It’s not that OpenOffice is not good — it’s the problem of convincing
businesses that depend on Microsoft Office. And you’d hear screams by
users who have to learn new applications."
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