On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 07:17:07PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
>
> One of my gripes with MS Office (I'm not saying MS shouldn't be allowed
> to do this, it just annoys me) is the continual new versions. The vast
> majority of users never use 90% of the features (hence why StarOffice is
> a viable alternative for many - not that it's particularly lacking in
> features itself). As soon as businesses start to upgrade, files start
> circulating in the new formats,
(this is incomplete - again :)
...and people feel they have to upgrade to keep up to date. And of
course, this means being on an up to date version of Windows. Which
means being on an up to date computer.
90% of business machines could still be 486's with Windows 3.1.
Martin
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