Official Microsoft video proves that Microsoft Office is like cocaine | Linux Today

Official Microsoft video proves that Microsoft Office is like cocaine

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2010

[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti
for this link. ]

“What Microsoft published is not really a video about
office productivity. A good part of that video is about drug
addiction and nothing more. It says “we already fell addicted to
this specific drug, it feels good and we see no way out. So you
should take it too”. This is what I was feeling. Several of those
quotes really sound like statements from people who tried to free
themselves of cocaine or some other equally destructive substance
and failed, simply because they misunderstood their situation or
didn’t really care to succeed.

“The best (but not the only) case is the quote at 2 minutes, 30
seconds from the beginning:

“School CIO: When we returned to Microsoft Office after our
experience with OpenOffice you could practically hear a collective
sigh of relief across the entire district”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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