Some interesting statistics about Microsoft Office in Business Week. This article claims MS-Office holds a 95% share of the office software market, with 400 million copies in use. Microsoft has recently branded users of older versions of MS-Office as ‘dinosaurs’. However, attempts to persuade them to upgrade have been a dismal failure:

• only 2% of MS-Office users have paid to upgrade to MS-Office 2003;
• for users with software maintenance agreements (which covers the cost of upgrades) less than half of those who could upgrade had done so by October last year

OpenOffice.org has consistently argued that “office suites are a mature product, and so users with a product currently installed on their PCs will probably be quite comfortable with it”. However, for users needing to replace their office suite – maybe the one they have isn’t quite legal? – the answer is obvious – why pay for MS-Office when you can upgrade to OpenOffice.org for free?

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