Inertia. People keep buying what they always have without necessarily any real reason for doing so.
Also, format lock-in. If Microsoft just goes off on its own as it has tended to then there is no point in ever saying you wanted open document standards if you think you want to use Microsoft Office. Try and remember how screwed up the Web is because of IE only sites even to this day.
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