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Submission + - Microsoft video on OO.org turns to PR disaster (google.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Microsft published an anti OpenOffice.org video. After first not-so-friendly comments pulled video back, but when another copy was found on-line made it avalaible again. (link: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/microsoft-posts-video-of-customers-criticizing-openoffice.ars) Now it turns out, that video content is little bit... oudated. One of the people quoted is Darek Muraszka from Kaczmarski Inkasso collection agency. According to information on polish Microsoft Website (link to google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fpoland%2Foffice%2Foffice2003%2Feditions%2Frozwiazania%2Finkasso.mspx&act=url) Kaczmarski moved to MS Windows and MS Office solution in 2001, citing Linux and OO.org unmaturity as main reason. It is good to know, that they couldn't find more unhappy open source users thru all those years.

Comment Re:Be Warned (Score 3, Insightful) 379

The Sugar was problem since day one of the project. Laptop design was very innovative for that time. The idea of cheap educational laptop was brilliant. How this happened, that the hardware was finished quickly, while the software was in deep alfa? They should stick to what was proven "good enough" software solution. By scattering their small resources on building the whole new user interfaces OLPC lost its chance to master the price and marketing.

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