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To: elmatador who wrote (7094)	8/14/2001 1:05:49 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

No one can doubt their market dominance and pervasiveness (almost pernicious LOL), but it's not great integration or products, it's absolute marketing genius and salesmanship (and a bit of luck and strong arming for good measure) that got them there. My sister (VP at a pretty large company) sends me an email attachment with a Word document which I can't open on my usual machine so I open it on another machine on my Lan, fine. I reply back to her that I'd prefer if she just used Wordpad in the future, saves me a step. She replied back to me that she didn't realize anybody used anything but Word anymore !! PS I don't use those Microsoft *integrated* products Word, Excel, Outlook ... mainly as a security precaution. Microsoft's success has also made them favourites for hackers *doesn't 'everybody have them LOL.* I use suitable alternates. Documents such as Invoices, notes etc are fine in .pdf form for exchanging.