[CLUE-Tech] Yet another reason to use Linux exCLUEsively

[Cyberclops]

How can the richest man in the world have a falling revenue stream?
It seems high priced bloatware is not actually what people are looking for.

grant wrote:

> > Unfortunately, Microsoft has been relatively successful at convincing
> > people that they "need" to upgrade - and, of course, if they can't
> > persuade you to upgrade they'll simply make future versions incompatible.
> > I can't blame Microsoft entirely for that, though - the other software
> > vendors like Adobe and Macromedia (notice that the list gets shorter
> > every year?) also like to keep people on the upgrade cycle.
> >
> > At the rate that Microsoft is alienating their users, partners and
> > OEM customers I wouldn't be surprised to see Linux and the Mac OS gain
> > a huge chunk of the desktop market two years from now. I still wish
> > someone would put out a decent Linux-based appliance for email,
> > browsing and word processing so I could buy one for my Mom & grandparents...
> >
> Right now, MS's biggest competitor in the Office Suite space is
> themselves.  Office 2000 is scheduled to stop production in about a month,
> making XP the only shipping version, but over 60% are using either Office
> 95 or 97.  That means that 98, 2K, and Xp, the three most current versions
> are in the high 30% range.  They have lost the ability to convince people
> to upgrade for features, and 98-XP have one file format for Word, so
> planned obsolecence are less of an issue.  This has hurt revenue streams.
>
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