Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Microsoft 8 business priorities

On 07/25/2013 04:10 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> On 25/07/2013 09:58, Marc Paré wrote:
>
> > For the younger set, this is a good deal even if they do have
> > LibreOffice installed.
> I know, I was just joking. By the way, nothing similar in Europe
> (actually, the Xbox offer has a high price, and impacts on the bottom
> line of Office 365, which is significant because it means that they are
> not selling Office 365 - a must for them, to maintain their cash cow -
> and they are not selling old style licenses).


Yes, I have seen articles about MS reduced income of their normalcash 
cow products. They are not getting as much income from their normal 
money makers so they are looking for other ways to make income.

Here in the USA there are a number of "rental centers" for getting items 
on a monthly rental plan till you completely pay their fee to keep it.  
That rental fee adds up to 2 to 3 times the direct purchase price.  I 
see $300 TVs going for 24 months at $30 a month. People here are use to 
rent-to-own.  Of course the car leasing idea have you pay for your car 
and then after 3 years you have to give it back.  Maybe MS was thinking 
about that type of marketing/sales idea when going into the rental idea 
for their online and offline office suites.

As for the cloud, I would never allow MS to hold onto my data.  I do not 
even use Ubuntu One "cloud service".  Now if there was a Linux plan for 
a company like "Carbonite" backup system for unlimited backup for a low 
yearly price, I might try it.  But even though it is encrypted, the time 
it takes to upload almost 5 TB of data at 160 KB/s +/- would take the 
year to upload the data.

I am not a game player, but the idea of the new "game bar" that tracks 
your movements is not something I like.  There was an article about a 
"virus" where someone could track your movements without you knowing 
about it.  It may not record your image as life-like as a camera does, 
but it could detect who was who and tack their movements over time.  
There was a "warning" about doing anything you should not in front of 
one of those "Connect bars" or whatever they are called.  The same 
"tracking" idea has taken video off of the web cams on laptops in the 
bedrooms of teens and adult women was in the news a few months ago.  The 
article told people to tape a piece of paper over the web cam when you 
are not using it.  It seems that the "nasty" that was doing the deed got 
through the security software the girls/women had on their Windows laptops.

So, there are a lot of good reasons for going with Linux and going with 
LibreOffice.
Linux for the security and LO for the price.



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