Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft 8 business priorities

Hi :)
I think a lot of this depends on which country.  

I've just heard from someone at an Iranian University that encourages people to use TeX as an 
alternative to Word.  Sadly they don't yet support Odt at all but that seems open to change.  Here 
in the Uk it seems that all institutions force people into using MS formats and that doesn't seem 
likely to change, they even seem to be getting more entrenched.  I don't chat with many kids 
though.  My bosses kids are around 7 and 5 (ish), i think, but they are already firmly committed to 
MS.  No mention of iThings.  On the other hand he seems to be about the only person that doesn't 
have a string of hand-held devices.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Toki Kantoor <toki.kantoor@gmail.com>
> To: 
> Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 19:08
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft 8 business priorities
>
>
> On 07/24/2013 01:19 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
>
> > The fact that MS's tablet seemed to be a failure, since their first one
> > [Surface RT?] was not compatible for a very large percentage of Windows
>
> The Microsoft Surface RT was Microsoft's first commercially released ARM
> Tablet.
>
> The first tablet to run Microsoft Windows was released in 2001. This
> tablet used an Intel chip.
>
> > cost a premium when I bought the laptop.  It almost seemed like all of
> > the makers has to charge an extra fee to run Win7,
>
> For laptops that come with Win7, one has to purchase a license for
> Windows 8, and Windows 7.
> For laptops that come with WinXP, one has to purchase a license for
> Win8, Win7, WinVista, WinXP.
>
> > can help families keep their back to school software budgets from becoming more than their 
> > mortgage payments.
>
> Depending upon the specific school, the required hardware and software
> is more likely to be an iPad running iOS, or an an Android tablet
> running Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, or Key Lime Pie, than a
> laptop/desktop.
>
> AFAIK, both LibreOffice4Android and LibreOffice4iOS are still in alpha,
> with a very long way to go, before being suitable for testing by
> non-developers.
>
> jonathon
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