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That was a thorn in the side of many a BeOS user; while GoBe Productive was an amazing office suite, Microsoft Office had a stranglehold and if you didn't have
by morganvachon 12y ago
That was a thorn in the side of many a BeOS user; while GoBe Productive was an amazing office suite, Microsoft Office had a stranglehold and if you didn't have Word and Excel, you didn't have a computer in many people's minds.
The world has changed in the past 13 years; we've had OpenOffice and LibreOffice for many years, and Google Docs/Drive has forced Microsoft to focus on cloud-based productivity apps. Back when BeOS was alive, it was just as common to have a dial up modem as it was DSL or cable, and sometimes broadband simply wasn't available in certain areas. Cloud computing as we know it now was still over the horizon.
In today's cloud-centric Internet, Haiku could easily thrive if it got enough momentum. Unfortunately the only people who seem to even know about it are old BeOS hats like myself.