[odf-discuss] ITWire article: "Novell drives nail into Microsoft Office coffin"

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 3/13/07, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the Office revenue stream to Microsoft, I think we may already be
> past the tipping point you speak of. Microsoft's decision to provide
> free OOXML retrofits for Office 2000 and later is tantamount to giving
> away Office from Microsoft's standpoint. I.e., every download of the
> retrofit is a lost license sale for Office 2007. No more Office
> upgrade treadmill if you standardize on OOXML. Microsoft is obviously
> willing to take an incredible revenue hit to flood the world with
> OOXML files.

Interesting point if view.

Am I correct that in previous upgrades of its Office products, Microsoft only
provided "viewers" (that only work on the WIndows OS), for documents
generated with newer versions of Office ?

Thanks,

Peter