By Jo Best
Published: Wednesday 06 April 2005
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Name
Simon Bazley
Location
Thames Valley
Occupation
Software Engineer amongst others
Comment
As some point Windows and Office have to stop propping each other up.
If Microsoft brought out Office for Linux it would begin the opening up of the desktop market. For this reason Microsoft Don't want to do it, but should be made to. Money is almost an irrelevance on this issue. When will Microsoft finaly have to stop claiming that the lack of an MS Office for Linux is purely a business decision because of the lack of Desktops.
Spliting Office and Windows into different companies would have been the fairest option, but Bush caved on that one.
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