On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:25, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 05/01/07 23:58 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 22:39, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 1/5/07, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
Me? I would attack the business desktop market. That's much easier to deal with, does not have patented codec and multimedia issues, and gives bigger returns faster.
And that is really much more difficult to penetrate, especially since OOo is still not good enough.
I think OOo got it wrong when they tried to emulate M$ Office rather than innovate.
Errr, you do need compatibility with MS Office for things to work. At this point, ODF is a standard format, and a much better format than MS Office (even the XML stuff).
Given the UI changes to MS Office, it might even make sense to tell people that OOo will actually reduce their training costs.
The point is, keep it compatible, but there's no need to follow, say the UI design, for example, if it can be made better. Seriously, take a look at Office 2007.