PreviousSunday 9 November 2003, 2:31 AM
An 'Outlook Killer' is in devlopment over at OOo -- it will spell the beginning of the end of Microsoft Office
OpenOffice.org far outdistances Microsoft Office in all of its available product lines on dependability, quality, reliability, usability, document flexibility, and portability -- virtually every truly important underlying feature for an office suite. For example, when do any of us think Microsoft will include a native PDF export capability, and what will it cost? Also, OOo beat M$ to market with native XML document type support; it is only now becoming available with MS Office System 2003.
OOo is actually very simple for even modestly experienced Microsoft Office users to learn quickly and easily and become productive.
Real, rational reasons for not dumping M$ Office for OOo are dwindling to a very few, and with the 'Outlook Killer' called 'GLOW' in development and due out in 2004, 'the clock is ticking'.
With the extremely fast and still growing popularity of OOo and other truly outstanding Open Source projects such as Mozilla; it's no wonder Steve Balmer and Bill Gates are spending so much time on 'campaign speeches' trying to knock down Open Source Software alternatives to the costly and bug-ridden choices their bloated-dinosaur company continues to force-feed on the business and personal software markets.
In the end, the fall of Microsoft will come from internal rot -- they are so big, politically powerful and monopolistic that they are frozen in bureaucratic inertia. Open Source Software will simply be the Empire State Building (visions of 'King Kong') they fall off of . Good riddance.
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