“Microsoft Office for Linux is one product that will
probably never make it out the door. Why? Microsoft has only
one, trivial, reason to port Office to Linux: money (which
Microsoft has no shortage of). But, if Microsoft were to do so,
anyway, they would have to overcome numerous obstacles: fierce
competition with Star Office, demonization by the Linux community,
and their own FUD to name a few.”
“The average Linux user is 110% against Microsoft. Although
Linux is undoubtedly a good OS, being Microsoft free was probably
part of the decision to go Linux.”