15 Customers Who Switched to Microsoft Office After Evaluating OpenOffice.org

One way to make sure people remember what you have to say is
to say something unexpected.  Generally
what people expect from Microsoft is for us to explain why our products are
better than competitors’.  It’s not very
surprising to hear us talk about why we love our own software.  It’s true we might not be the most unbiased
source in this debate.  So, rather than
sharing our own views on the advantages of Microsoft Office over OpenOffice.org
(an open source productivity suite) we want to share our customers’ views on
the topic.

All of the quotes in the video come from publicly available
case studies and press articles.  You can
read them all via the links below.

After many years of
listening to the supposed promise of free software and even trying it
themselves, these organizations and individuals were brave enough to recognize
a lack of cost savings on top of the constant headaches around managing OpenOffice.org.  I’m sure that OpenOffice.org fanatics will
respond with all sorts of criticisms and links to customers who’ve moved from
Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. While this may seem like a valid
counter-argument I urge you to consider that with an install base of over 750 million users it’s not difficult to find a few who want to investigate
alternative solutions.  What would really
be an adequate counterpoint would be to showcase customers who were
originally using OpenOffice.org, switched to Microsoft Office only to have a
poor experience, and then switched back to OpenOffice.org.  Then we would have an interesting discussion.