From: "Dave Ings" 

What you say may be true of individuals, or corporations who haven't
already made Office their standard (which must be all of a couple of dozen
world wide).

But when you have train x thousand office workers and the IT support staff
on Office, you tend to look at the TCO of switching, versus the maintaining
status quo, rather than the incremental licence cost. It's just another
manifestation of the network effect.

My spouse is I think, more typical than not, of non-technical office
workers (she is a bank manager). She looses patience in learning any new
application after about 5 minutes of instruction. To her it's a total bore
that gets in the way of her real job. Multiply her by a few thousand and
you begin to see the real world impediments to switching any entrenched
piece of corporate software.
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Brian Hall"  wrote in message
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> Dave Ings wrote:
>
 OpenOffice is
> just as easy to use and has everything MS Office has (that any normal
> office worker would need) other than the price.
>

> What is there to get over? If someone wants to pay Microsoft for
> something they could get for free that is their loss, not mine.
>

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