I guess the moral of the story is "Never believe statistics unless you falsified them yourself".
The corollary to this is "Another useless statistic is fabricated every three seconds, including this one!"
Why don't they just say Microsoft Office still is the predominate office productivity suite on the market and leave it at that. Quoting fabricated statistics just makes them look bad.
Not offering an upgrade incentive for Office 2007 licensed users also makes them look bad... or does it?
The productivity boosts my people got from moving from action menu based Office 2003 to process ribbon based Office 2007 was huge and the time saving meant the ROI was only a matter of weeks. If we can see the same kind of gains in time saving and additional functionality again, then Office 2010 will be worth every penny and doesn't need to offer a special discount (essentially cheapening and devaluing their own product).
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