Well you might want to switch to Openoffice if you are a small or medium sized business because if you get hit by a 0-day bug in a Microsoft piece of software then they want you to pay them for a support contract just so they can fix the bug rather than fixing it for free like they would in an open source piece of software. So if you get caught out, like one of my clients, they expect you to pay for the software then lose money through lost productivity and then you have to pay them to fix a problem in their software. And before anyone says the usual of have you applied all the updates, all of the XP and office updates have been applied and they dont make any difference.
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Posted by: The Tekmerc on April 21, 2005 11:07 PM#