Re: [tdf-discuss] Is Microsoft getting worried about free Office suites?

On 1 December 2011 14:27, toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 28/11/11 11:14, Pedro wrote:
> > I'm wondering if the recent offer for download of the "add supported"
> limited
>  edition of Microsoft Office Starter is a reaction to the improving quality
>
> Microsoft has been experimenting with various low-cost/no-cost to the
> user pricing schemes for the last five or so years.
>
> Nothing to do with office suite quality, and everything to do with
> trying to convert Joe Sixpack into thinking that software for a service
> is the way things have always been done.

Snag is they are not going to get the margins that way and they will
effectively destroy their own cash cow. Its a classic problem.


> jonathon
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