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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Microsoft gets set for big Office, Vista sell job | Microsoft gets set for big Office, Vista sell job |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 26 November 2006 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Earlier this year, Linux vendor Novell's chief marketing officer John Dragoon pointed out that the upgrade to Vista from Windows XP will not be a trivial one. Mr Dragoon pointed out that the complexity of the upgrade will make it almost obligatory for cost conscious enterprises to explore the option of moving to Linux on the desktop. Linux has already mounted a serious challenge to Microsoft in the server space. To make things worse for Microsoft, the Linux community can now even point to a few medium and large enterprises that have made the move. Microsoft, of course, is fully aware of the Linux threat to the adoption of Vista in the enterprise and is attempting to cover its bases. Microsoft has moved to forge alliances with Linux vendors such as Novell and has made implied threats of legal action for patent infringements against Linux users. Whatever problems Microsoft may face on moving corporate clients over to Vista, however, are likely to small compared to convincing those clients that they need to upgrade to Office 2007. Aside from Windows, Microsoft Office is the company's biggest revenue and profit spinner. However, it's use in both the consumer and corporate space has just about reached saturation point. While Windows sales continue to grow slowly, growth in Office sales has almost stalled. |
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