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Story: Where is StarOffice 8?Total Replies: 1
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mdl

Aug 19, 2005
7:13 PM EDT
Holding up a release to squash bugs? Microsoft would never do that. They don't worry about bugs. Their delays are caused by not being able to deliver their vaporware..... you know: The Next Great Thing! After a few delays they strip the guts out of "The Next Great Thing", ship it, and declare it a masterpiece.

dinotrac

Aug 20, 2005
4:32 AM EDT
Maybe so -- and squashing bugs is a very good thing.

So, however, is getting software out the door before it's obsolete.

All of the recent (and well-deserved) excitement over Firefox heading towards a double-digit market share is possible only because the Mozilla folks gave up and surrendered to Microsoft while developing their "Vision".

Firefox has a chance to overcome the Mozilla blunder because Microsoft has let IE -- which doesn't produce revenue -- languish in the absence of competition.

Of course, OpenOffice may be able to overcome Office for the opposite reason: Microsoft keeps actively developing it -- to Microsoft standards. ;0)

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