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It's basically the "No one gets fired for buying IBM" effect. Microsoft became the default. Everyone was familiar with it, and knew it would work.
by nitwit005 1y ago
It's basically the "No one gets fired for buying IBM" effect. Microsoft became the default. Everyone was familiar with it, and knew it would work.
- tharne 1y agoPeople tend to underestimate the value of a solution that folks, especially less technical folks, are already trained on, comfortable with, and one that is known to work as expected.
- jay_kyburz 1y agoThis is exactly why Canva is handing out Afinity for free.
- guerrilla 1y agoI'm sure people get killed all the time for using American services. It's just that they were all brown "terrorists", not liberal Intitutions situated in Europe, until now that is.
- DeathArrow 1y agoI know how to use MS Office. All my colleagues know how to use MS Office. People want to solve their daily problems, not learn how to use new software.
- margorczynski 1y agoThat's a very simplistic view of what Microsoft offers. They don't sell an office software package but a very robust solution for running the software side of a business. The OS, office package, email (server and client), calendar, cloud & backup, BI, etc. all aligned work almost seamlessly with each other (compared to the alternatives for sure). Nothing on the market comes close and that is the reason they are worth trillions, not because they use closed formats.
- SuperNinKenDo 1y agoI agree this is a big part of it. Office sucks?: "Man Office sucks these days." The "weird" alternative you expended political capital to put everyone on works slightly differently or lacks a feature out of the box?: "What were you thinking?!"
- amelius 1y agoIt was basically "if the US ever plays this card, all hell will break loose for their IT companies". So ICC and others simply assumed it would not happen.