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If large corporations weren't forcing Microsoft products on their users, MS's market share would shrink relatively quickly, IMO. It's not entirely dissimilar t

• chancho 18y ago
  If gravity wasn't forcing me onto the ground I could fly. I'm sure there are plenty of organizations that would love to move away from Microsoft, but its just reality that they can't. They are too invested in it. It would take too much money, too much time and too much political will to make a change. It's not their fault, its not even Microsoft's doing, other than being in the right place (on commodity PCs) at the right time (the '90s.) It's just the way it is.
• likpok 18y ago
  The problem is that many of Microsoft products are very nice. Things like Office have no competitors, unless you take massive cuts in usability and features.
• actf 18y ago
  I disagree. There's a large number of microsoft products that I would gladly use over the alternatives. C#? I'd much rather use C# over java. Office? What's the alternative there? Open Office? Come on Open Office is far buggier, less user friendly, less productive, and has far less features. Google Docs? Missing tons of features, not to mention it's utterly useless when I don't have a network connection. Visual Studio? Again nothing comes close to the features, speed, and stability. Eclipse is the nearest competitor imo - and it's still trailing behind a long ways.