alt Hacker NewsYou're right for home users. In businesses, the hill is also that some users are power users that have locked themselves in, in slightly different ways between the different power users. Also the company has also locked itself in by drinking deeply from the Microsoft well (e.g. AD and sharepoint and Windows etc) and marketing away will cost them a lot of time and effort, and therefore money.
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freeopinion • last Friday at 8:11 PM
My comment was focused on Word. There is definitely a lot of lock-in for the larger MS ecosystem in business. But that is the nature of large bureaucracies. They struggle to switch between UPS and FedEx, or between Staples and OfficeDepot. Switching away from the MS ecosystem is significantly harder than that.
If the lawyers and the financial analysts need Windows Office for certain uses let them use them. But I'd note that the first edition of a book I wrote a while back had a Sharepoint workflow and had moved away by the second edition.
The licensing/support is cheaper carries some weight. But Windows to Linux mostly didn't win a lot of fights on the desktop. But Google Docs for collaboration and general simplicity does win over a lot of companies.