Comments on: Microsoft admit Office is too expensive http://davecole.org/blog/2007/08/21/microsoft-admit-office-is-too-expensive/ Thoughts, notes and comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: El Dave. http://davecole.org/blog/2007/08/21/microsoft-admit-office-is-too-expensive/#comment-304 El Dave. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:26:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=339#comment-304 I've no idea how much it costs, tbh. Do enlighten me... I’ve no idea how much it costs, tbh. Do enlighten me…

]]> By: Sir James Beiggelschwarz http://davecole.org/blog/2007/08/21/microsoft-admit-office-is-too-expensive/#comment-303 Sir James Beiggelschwarz Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:10:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=339#comment-303 Had to smile at this, Dave. You know how much these things cost in Russia? Had to smile at this, Dave. You know how much these things cost in Russia?

]]> By: El Dave. http://davecole.org/blog/2007/08/21/microsoft-admit-office-is-too-expensive/#comment-302 El Dave. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:23:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=339#comment-302 No, but it illustrates how expensive Office is and, as things can easily be routed, moved around and so on, opens up a potentially problematic grey market for MS.<br/><br/>I freely admit that I have a beard. I do not have suspenders (do you mean braces?). I do use open source things (Ubuntu at home and Firefox and OpenOffice at work).<br/><br/>As to people who use it who don't have beards - lots of websites are based on LAMP bundles - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.<br/><br/>Other people who use just the Ubuntu distro of Linux are Contact Air, the Wellcome Trust, Skegness Grammar and various parts of the governments of Castilla la Mancha and Andalusia in Spain and parts of the French and Belgian governments. No, but it illustrates how expensive Office is and, as things can easily be routed, moved around and so on, opens up a potentially problematic grey market for MS.

I freely admit that I have a beard. I do not have suspenders (do you mean braces?). I do use open source things (Ubuntu at home and Firefox and OpenOffice at work).

As to people who use it who don’t have beards - lots of websites are based on LAMP bundles - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Other people who use just the Ubuntu distro of Linux are Contact Air, the Wellcome Trust, Skegness Grammar and various parts of the governments of Castilla la Mancha and Andalusia in Spain and parts of the French and Belgian governments.

]]> By: Matthew Sinclair http://davecole.org/blog/2007/08/21/microsoft-admit-office-is-too-expensive/#comment-301 Matthew Sinclair Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:55:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=339#comment-301 Differential pricing is hardly a creation of Microsoft.<br/><br/>As for opensource, no one without a beard (and usually suspenders) will use it so who gives a crap? Differential pricing is hardly a creation of Microsoft.

As for opensource, no one without a beard (and usually suspenders) will use it so who gives a crap?

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