Wednesday, July 12, 2006

MS Open Source Wake Call =-> Your market share is at stake.

After spending a few years dening that alternative office suites and formats even existed, Microsoft has realized they need to get ahead of the issue and actually listen to their customers. If Open Office has done one great thing, it's to force Microsoft off their asses to begin to compete again. Market share like MS Offices' breeds complancy which is why nearly every Office from 97 onwards looks almost incredibly identical. I am not certain what great new features I got in Office2003 (the version I currently use when forced to put documents on paper) but I am sure there are some minor improvements.

So now I will be able to open badly designed presentations from open source engineers just as easily as the badly designed presentations from marketing. Score one for both MS and open source!