On Sunday 30 September 2007 04:59:10 am G T Smith wrote:
Richard Creighton wrote:
primm wrote:
It's true. It is impossible to get people to change from using office with xp. They will not use vista either. Yeah. read it again. Somehow microsoft has instilled in them that this is the only way to write a document and send e-mails. They will _not_ change to Linux or vista. windows 98 is just fine however. They hate those superb cast iron IBM keyboards that we all love. They want proper plastic keyboards and a mouse with a wire. The menus are not in the right place in openoffice anyway they will tell you. They feel safe with xp and office. In the real world thats what there is. I'm dealing with housewives who do word processing on a part time basis. They simply cannot change. To them, Openoffice and Linux is a joke.
Lynn x
Seein' as how M$ isn't supporting XP anymore, what would happen if you had a hardware failure and *had* to install the latest 'offering' from M$ on new hardware? These housewives would be forced to learn new
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Richard
Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies as M$ expected :-)
Few hundreds reasons per product. Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer upgrade (no monitor and accessories).
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