:iTWire: Microsoft Says Open Office.org 10 Years Behind
iTWire: Microsoft Says Open Office.org 10 Years Behind Mar 6, 2006, 16 :45 UTC (26 Talkback[s]) (9721 reads) (Other stories by Stan Beer)
"As general manager, business strategy, for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft Corporation, Alan Yates develops and guides new business initiatives for the Office products group at Redmond. While we await the release of Microsoft Office 2007, promised to hit our shelves before the end of 2006, Yates dismisses open source rival Open Office.org 2.0 as being 10 years out of date.
"According to Yates, there are very good reasons for people to pay $500 or more for even the soon to be superseded version of Microsoft Office as opposed to paying nothing for a copy of Open Office 2.0, which the Linux crowd will tell you does the job just as well..."
