Wrong Mike...
Microsoft developed their office product from the ground up while Corel bought theirs from the bottom of the barrel. In fact, Corel's office product is a merging of completely and totally different development efforts by several different companies. The Corel pom-pom crowd wants us to believe that they somehow managed to get the best-of-breed and then just seemlessly integrated them. Sorry, that's bunk. Corel keeps giving away its products or dumping them at firesale prices.
It's really funny watching these guys trying to convince us all that Corel has superior products and that the consumer is just too stupid to realize it. Give me a large sampling of several vendors, say, at least a half dozen, and then I might entertain that the best isn't the most popular. What we're talking about here are two products that came out of the same technical vacuum, basically toy-progammers making products for toy computers, a lot of them who still played with toys and had to be in bed by 9:00 -- Gates had a very bad sense of development talent if you ask me. WP was just more of the same, except that they were late to the Windows party, too late as it turned out.
Keep it up folks. Keep telling us how Corel's product (that is the one they got from Novell) is really better. Sure, it must be a marketing problem, right. As if somehow Microsoft is just a complete technical right off. As if having unlimited funds, first access to OS features and several parallel development teams never bore any fruit. Yeah, right. Corel is better? What a load that is.
I use StarOffice on both Linux and Windows and Netscape Communicator. The sooner I can rid myself of Microsoft's products the better. Yet, I would never even contemplate moving to a worser, if not the worstest product around: Corel's warmed-over '80s hand-me-downs, tankyoovellymuch. |
