After all, when your Microsoft bill will be the same whether you upgrade or not, you might as well upgrade. It would give them a stable income, it would increase the amount of money paid (over the long run) by their customers, and it would completely remove past versions of their old software from the competition. This is precisely why Microsoft wants to get their customers on a subscription model. Even worse, hardly anyone can tell you what the new "features" of this product actually are. So Microsoft is stuck with the unenviable job of trying to sell the new features of their newest Office Suite during an economic downturn. If the entire world decided to skip upgrading to Office XP Microsoft would go under just as quickly as if we all switched to Linux. Microsoft knows that their biggest Office suite competitor isn't Corel, or Sun, it's old versions of their software. That is why nearly 60% of Microsoft's Office customers are still using pre-2000 versions of MS Office. This is because most of Microsoft's big customers threatened to switch to another Office suite after the 95 to 97 debacle. Actually sharing files between Office (other than Access files, which have completely changed) works surprisingly well.
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