Microsoft Office 2007 - Is the Arrogance Gone?
Who on earth is Alan Yates and why does he sound so unrepentantly arrogant about the upcoming new version of Microsoft Office? Mr. Yates is general manager, business strategy, for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft Corporation. Yates develops and guides new business initiatives for the Office products group at Redmond, WA. Yates dismisses open source rival Open Office.org 2.0 as being 10 years out of date.
I'm not a starry-eyed proponent of OpenOffice.org 2.0. I've reviewed, I like it well enough and I'm using it regularly alongside Microsoft Office 2003. But I'm also a long-time Microsoft Office user who has repeatedly been confronted by Microsoft's development arrogance embedded in almost every version of Office. That Yates has the nerve to derogate OpenOffice, flies in the face of Microsoft's own glaring legion of errors visited over the years upon millions of MS Office devotees (some of whom care, and some of whom simply endure the frustrations).
Message for Mr. Yates: Smarten Up! More . . .
I'm not a starry-eyed proponent of OpenOffice.org 2.0. I've reviewed, I like it well enough and I'm using it regularly alongside Microsoft Office 2003. But I'm also a long-time Microsoft Office user who has repeatedly been confronted by Microsoft's development arrogance embedded in almost every version of Office. That Yates has the nerve to derogate OpenOffice, flies in the face of Microsoft's own glaring legion of errors visited over the years upon millions of MS Office devotees (some of whom care, and some of whom simply endure the frustrations).
Message for Mr. Yates: Smarten Up! More . . .
posted by Howard Carson, Managing Editor @ 4:35 PM
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