Re: OT: OpenOffice not 100% compatible?

Hi Joerg,
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Their marketeers do not seem to understand how much business that is costing
them. I do not upgrade anything unless I absolutely have to.

Well, I suspect you're not in the average Microsoft marketing guy's target
demographic then. :-) The big bucks surely must come from large institutions
who can be convinced to upgrade on a regular basis every time a new version of
Windows or Office or whatever comes out.

I believe the main problem is that there are an awful lot of people out there
with decision-making authority (when it comes to software) who aren't
particularly familiar with the software they're being asked to upgrade, so by
default they figure that "newer=better --> let's buy it!" is the "safest"
option.

Sooner or later everyone tends to be "strongly encouraged" to upgrade anyway,
once they start receiving documents from their peers in newer formats their
software can't handle. After getting the 10th such document in a week and
having to ask the sender to convert and re-send, the recipient figures that
dealing with the problem might just be easier if *he* were the one making the
change.


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