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• The death of Lotus et al...
  You state (correctly) that Lotus and other competing products failed to keep up.
  
  I'll give you a hint why. Microsoft gave away Word/Excel to undermine there competitors (Small Buisness Edition).
  
  Potential customers figured at the time 'Why buy Lotus when Excel is 'free'. This was the effect Microsoft was looking for, and it drove there competitors out of buisness.
  
  Off course, Microsoft is now on the receiving end, where users are now examining Open Office and others and saying 'Why pay for MS Office when I can get OO for free?'.
  
  I whish them (MS) nothing but pain. In reply to: "Office of the future?"

  October 5, 2007

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