I think the matter is interesting. In Monachium of Bayern (Germany) people said that calls to the help desk fell from about 70 to about 46 (per day or month, I don't remember exactly) when they removed proprietary software from their 15,000 desktops, fucking one of the main arguments of Microsoft.
Another interesting matter was told in Rovereto (Italy) when they adopted LibreOffice instead of Microsoft: "proprietary software provides for sure a higher quality, but do we really need all that quality?" (and to pay for, I would add). It happens always even with smartphones or so: people buy things bigger than they need. http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html Microsoft reports some speech or comments from some experts / professionals, but the list of cases of succesful adoption of LibreOffice is much longer. For sure, to say that Microsoft is a marketing champion enterprise. I mostly hate 2 things of Microsoft (thinking of Office in particular). first is the lock-in of platform, software and data: no office for linux, no access to linux partitions and use of open data (if the docx format is open data I am mr Obama - would write better in english). Second: they change slowly the data format every time they produce a new software version, giving consumers the wrong idea that every version is revolutionary and a must have (it means still that in offices, schools, public institutions people spend money for unneeded new software versions). Where I work they have 300 desktops with different versions of microsoft office, with people complaining all the time that what works on a computer doesn't work on another. I am trying to convince them to use free software to solve the problem... i will talk them again after holidays.... ________________________________ From: Immanuel Giulea <[email protected]> To: Marketing <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:30 PM Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice? Hello all, Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits on some of the weaknesses of LO (and bundles LO with OOo): http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/D/D0DA0C4B-22DE-40C7-A84D-0C7E03347A9C/Considering-LibreOffice-and-OO-v2.pdf Is there some materials that can explain the strong points of LO and offer counter-arguments to what MS says ? Some of the key points would be: - lack of calendaring/email - collaboration tools - pivot tables Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
