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Weblog:   Followup Mac Conversation with Microsoft
Subject:   Microsoft products are very important
Date:   2002-08-09 20:16:16
From:   rparada

At our office we use OS X. Mostly developers and users who are tired of viruses. It just feels so great to be able to use Microsoft products on a delightful operating system. We all love OS X. We have a mixed environment with Windows, OS X and a little bit of UNIX servers (non-OS X).


I'm sure many corporate users who use OS X feel the same way I do. I would never consider an alternative to Microsoft Office. I've been down that path before and it just doesn't work. We need Microsoft products.


And I don't care whether they have too many features, cost too much or have bugs. It's gotta be from Microsoft.


But I have to agree that Microsoft Office is a bit expensive for a lot of people and it's common sense to me to think that Microsoft has to do something about that if they want to sell more of their products.


I use Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Media Player and MSN Messenger.


Messenger is specially important to me because I communicate with a lot of international users and that market is dominated practically 100% by MSN Messenger. People don't even know that there are other instant messengers (AOL, Yahoo, Netscape, Excite). Even 5 year old kids use MSN Messenger, it's amazing.


Microsoft bridges the gap between Windows and the Mac better than Virtual PC. Thanks Microsoft for playing on the OS X platform, in particular I want to thank the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft.