[Ti] MS dropping Office for Mac

[Stephen Chakwin]

Come to my office and you'll see one.  Get in touch with any of the 
good people in the MacLaw Yahoo discussion group and you'll see lots.  
Go to the Apple web site and you can see stories about them.  We're 
here and we're happy to be here.  And if I had to do without either MS 
Office or my Mac, I'd find an alternate word processor etc. in a 
nanosecond.

Stephen

Stephen D. Chakwin, Jr.
Attorney at Law
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 04:03 PM, XXL wrote:

>> With all due respect, I disagree completely.  He adds: "The business 
>> market is
>> lost to Apple at this point."  I disagree with that too.
>>
>> Lots of lawyers use Macs and love them (see, e.g., 
>> http://www.maclaw.org for a
>> very active group of them).  Certainly the entertainment industry 
>> uses Macs;
>> and in my opinion, it would be a big mistake to ever write off 
>> business sales.
>
> These are niche markets.  Microsoft revenues are something like $48 
> billion
> per year.. And that is just the OS and Office apps..not hardware.  The
> entire movie industry generated something like $10 billion in total 
> revenues
> last year.   If Mac got every sale to the entire industry it would 
> just not
> be that much in revenue. (though it would be nice.)  I am not sure ow 
> many
> lawyers "lots of" enumerates, but I have never seen a Mac in a law 
> office in
> my life.  So lots of lawyers don't use Macs, too.  I currently have a
> running argument with a lawyer friend that I am trying to convert to 
> Mac.
> He keeps coming up with reasons to keep his PC's.
>
> Why must an Office Suite have MICROSOFT on the box? As long as it is 
> file
> compatible and does the job I think that is irrelevant.  If someone 
> can buck
> the crowd enough to buy a  Mac in the first place, then why not an 
> Office
> suite from Apple or someone else?
>
> The simplest argument has to be current sales of Mac Office.  How can
> Microsoft maintain that the Mac will fail without Office in the same 
> breath
> they complain that hardly anybody is buying Mac Office?  There is hole 
> in
> the logic there you could drive a truck through.