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Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes "A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice. But why is Microsoft so intent on damaging the FOSS desktop productivity suite, which has just a tiny market share? Rodrigues figured out the real reason by noting who Microsoft quoted to slam OpenOffice: businesses in emerging markets such as Eastern Europe that aren't already so invested in Office licenses and know-how. In other words, the customers Microsoft doesn't have yet and now fears it never will."
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  • The major blocker flaw of OpenOffice.org is it's UI, it's far from able to compete with Microsoft Office because of this. You can say it's open-source and free and all that but if it doesn't look like it belongs in 2010 then most people (like my parents, for example), won't even bother using it.

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      by symbolset (646467)
      I've seen it said that the main objections to Microsoft Office alternatives is that they're not perfectly compatible with Office. That the argument is circular isn't as interesting as the fact that Office's unique incompatibility with every other application in the world is seen as an argument for it.

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