Comments on: What Can Microsoft Do To Survive? http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/ Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: I STILL say Microsoft is DOOMED… | Geeks and Technology - Linux Windows Unix system and Making money online http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-166 I STILL say Microsoft is DOOMED… | Geeks and Technology - Linux Windows Unix system and Making money online Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:39:47 +0000 http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/#comment-166 [...] really think so, and there are several others out there who don’t think so, either. Over at Wombat Diet in a post titled “What Can Microsoft Do To Survive?”, some of the same points I touched [...] [...] really think so, and there are several others out there who don’t think so, either. Over at Wombat Diet in a post titled “What Can Microsoft Do To Survive?”, some of the same points I touched [...]

]]> By: Eats Wombats http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Eats Wombats Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:33:30 +0000 http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/#comment-153 I have heard and read that Excel is the REAL stumbling block to migration for a lot of businesses, but I recall Lotus 1-2-3 (where did that go?!) looking pretty impregnable once. Open Office is indeed a bit like going back in time but I reckon I could write as good a novel in WordStar (or preferably XyWrite, never Word Perfect) as in Word. It's still burnt into the nerve endings--from the days before function keys and WYSIWYG. Nothing lasts forever! I have heard and read that Excel is the REAL stumbling block to migration for a lot of businesses, but I recall Lotus 1-2-3 (where did that go?!) looking pretty impregnable once. Open Office is indeed a bit like going back in time but I reckon I could write as good a novel in WordStar (or preferably XyWrite, never Word Perfect) as in Word. It’s still burnt into the nerve endings–from the days before function keys and WYSIWYG. Nothing lasts forever!

]]> By: Roads http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Roads Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:00:00 +0000 http://wombatdiet.net/2007/09/05/what-can-microsoft-do-to-survive/#comment-152 It must be simple to make money as Microsoft just by continuing to exist and sell pre-packaged software on all those new machines. I spent an interesting couple of months recently in the company of some alternative 'Open Office' software. An open source alternative to the Office suite of applications. Saved a couple of hundred squid. But did I, really ? It could do nearly all the important things. But the problem was, in useability and refinement terms it was just like going back to 1995, with Word and Excel 2.0. Never thought I'd welcome the Blue Monster back so wholeheartedly, but I did. It must be simple to make money as Microsoft just by continuing to exist and sell pre-packaged software on all those new machines.

I spent an interesting couple of months recently in the company of some alternative ‘Open Office’ software. An open source alternative to the Office suite of applications. Saved a couple of hundred squid.

But did I, really ? It could do nearly all the important things. But the problem was, in useability and refinement terms it was just like going back to 1995, with Word and Excel 2.0. Never thought I’d welcome the Blue Monster back so wholeheartedly, but I did.

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