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Skriven 2005-07-11 17:02:02 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5880 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Continuing Microsoft Office improvements
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>

> and that product never expires.
> Software doesn't perish ever."

Microsoft has a solution for that.

Wait until Product Deactivation kicks in, and forced version upgrades are the
Microsoft norm.

 /m


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:56:00 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote:

>MS also has a problem in that while they are encouraging users to upgrade to
>Office 2003 they are also blathering about the improvements in Office 12 (
>in 2006 ). MS evens admits to the 'good enough' problem
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=1&u=/pcworld/20050711/tc_pcwo
rld/121758
>We're a victim of our own success in that Office 97, Office XP, [and other
>earlier versions] are products people like," Capossela says. "But to
>convince someone that the newer version is much better is harder because
>people are quite happy with their current product, and that product never
>expires. Software doesn't perish ever."
>
>
>"Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
>news:42d292af$1@w3.nls.net...
>>I never said it wasn't.  What is it about the definition of the words "I
>> Suspect" that seem to so trouble your reading comprehension.  Quit being
>> such a touchy ass about this.  Its not my fault nobody wants to upgrade
>> their MS Office software.
>>
>> Your employer needs to build a business model that doesn't rely upon full
>> cost monopoly priced upgrades of products every 9 months.  That isn't my
>> fault either.  Eventually, people say "wait a minute", again not my fault.
>>
>> I guess Microsoft could get lots of office upgrades if they just make
>> Longhorn incompatible with every version of MS Office except <FILL IN NAME
>> OF VERSION HERE>.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42d28167@w3.nls.net...
>>   And I still think you have no clue.  The 95% you keep claiming is a
>> number you pulled out of thin air.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>  "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
>> news:42d265b2$1@w3.nls.net...
>>  You are right that my perspective does not extend outside the USA.
>>
>>  I never said there weren't *improvements* from Office 5.0 to the later
>>  versions.  I am saying those *improvements* are meaningless to 95% of the
>>  market, and in MANY or MOST situations those *improvements* are offset by
>>  dis-incentives and negative changes that are more negative than the
>>  improvements are positive.
>>
>>  I like office 2000, have no plans to go above office 2000.  Truth is, I
>>  could easily stayed with Office 5.  I suspect that truth holds for 95% of
>>  the market within my perspective.
>>
>>  Gary
>>
>>  "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> 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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