From: Mike '/m' 


Both here at home, and people at work are quite happy with the
functionality that Office 97 provides.  The only reason we have later
versions at work is due to the inability to buy the version we wanted.

 /m

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:14:18 -0400, "Dave Ings"
 wrote:

>Office is a fact of life, and it will take a serious
"disruptive" technology
>to displace it. Open source folks had better just get over this.
>
>At this point Microsoft's biggest Office problem seems to be competing with
>itself - everything I read suggests most customers are perfectly happy with
>Office 2K and Office XP.
>
>The comment below is beyond silly, if the quote is accurate. When IBM
>acquired Lotus, it acquired for Notes and SmartSuite was already on life
>support. The spokesperson must be an industry newbie with no memory.

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