Re: Adobe adds product activation

[John Fleming <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:00:26 -0700, while chained to a desk in
the scriptorium, anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com ("Anita Legsdin")
wrote:

> $
> $Many organizations' decisions are affected by their customers. I have worked in many places where Word was the official tool because customers demanded documents in Word format, and file sharing was central to the business. 

I think you make a valid point.

When something like 80% of all PCs are running variants of MS
Office, we'd be crazy to not develop some skill with the
constituent applications.

Even though conversion tools abound, there is a definite
advantage to using the tools the companies/customers/clients we
work with use.

I don't think Microsoft has got the stranglehold on the market
they have by making a better product.  I have worked with
applications that were, IMO, much better than the comparable MS
product.  MS got the stranglehold through marketing savvy.

John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Alberta

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