| OpenOffice Appears Dept. [PCWorld] |
Aug. 08, 2002
John C. Dvorak calls OpenOffice.org 'impressive' at PCWorld. Dvorak examines this new threat to Microsoft and assesses its potential impact . . .
"Much of the recent buzz among computer users has been around the release of the all-free office suite OpenOffice.org 1.0 . . . This open-source spin-off of Sun's StarOffice might become the biggest threat yet to the Microsoft Office suite monopoly."
" . . . the first release of OpenOffice with the presentation graphics module is impressive. Microsoft should be extremely concerned, and I assume the company will find some way to break this software, perhaps with a service patch to Windows XP that 'accidentally' causes weird problems. This will have to be subtle, lest it draw attention to the tactic."
"The problem for Microsoft is that open-source code problems get fixed rather quickly by hordes of eager programmers . . ."
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