Text 5866, 66 rader
Skriven 2005-07-11 01:31:06 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5865 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Continuing Microsoft Office improvements
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From: Adam Flinton <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/10/ballmer_partners/

"Just 15 per cent of all PCs currently run Office 2003, two years into its
life, Ballmer said."

Adam


Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Blame the consumer? Is that the new Microsoft tactic that is to be used
> when a user feels no need to upgrade?   Gary's sentiments regarding
> Office are viewed by many. Will the MS attack machine go after the
> bloggers next ? ( sample below )
>
> http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/03/microsoft_offic.html
> It's no secret that Microsoft is having difficulty getting Office 97 and
> 2000 users to upgrade to the latest version. Most people use a small
> percentage of the Office suite's full feature set and feel fine with
> what they have.
>
> Or maybe ads with workers in dinosaur masks are just asinine? Perhaps MS
> marketing needs to 'evolve'
>
> http://www.netimperative.com/2005/04/13/Microsoft_viral
> The “New Eraö campaign features actors in an office environment wearing
> dinosaur masks, made by the creators of the /Jurassic Park/ dinosaurs.
> The ads show the old way of working with Office products, suggesting
> that it’s time to evolve with the latest version of Microsoft Office.
>
>
> "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42d1b1ad$1@w3.nls.net...
>
>        95% what market?  You surely do not mean people that speak many
>     non-Western languages because Unicode support did not appear until
>     Office 97 and support for more languages and better support for
>     existing ones continued to improve with successive releases.  With
>     your broad brush you are discounting a great deal of the people on
>     this planet.  Far more than 5%.  Western European language speaker
>     are the minority.  Even you would have to be blind to not see the
>     clear improvements between Office 5.0 or even Office 95 and Office 2000.
>
>        I suspect you have no clue what the improvements are in the two
>     releases since the one you use.  If I'm wrong feel free to tell us
>     all which Office 2003 applications you use and what differences you
>     perceived.
>
>     Rich
>
>
>         "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com
>         <mailto:zotu@nospamforme.com>> wrote in message
>         news:42d194f6$1@w3.nls.net...
>         The truth be told, Office for Win95 and Office 5.0 for Win3.1
>         was good
>         enough for 95% of the market.
>
>         I've stayed at the Office 2K level with no intention on the
>         horizon of going
>         higher.
>
>         Gary

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