My favorite part: "OpenOffice" is being used to refer to Microsoft Office.
Only half the ads use this wording. And no doubt this was not 100% intentional. Still, could this be a viable tactic to de-value poorly constructed brand names?
Only half the ads use this wording. And no doubt this was not 100% intentional. Still, could this be a viable tactic to de-value poorly constructed brand names?
Is this an ad? When you read the title you think Windows will start to read your text and advertise diapers and dating sites to you. Perpetually.
There must a be a different word, no pun intended, to differentiate a single time hint within a product family from vanilla banner ads.
Wordpad is a free application included in Windows. Microsoft Word is a pay to use application not included in Windows.
Wordpad is not within the Office product family.
In fact, before the divisions got semi-unified Wordpad was developed by an entirely different division from Office. Hence why Microsoft had multiple what you see is what you get word editors.
Another one was Microsoft Works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works) - another office suite by Microsoft that existed until 2009.
As it happens OpenOffice was never discontinued, it is still an active Apache project.
Not exactly. Ownership of the project moved from oracle to apache in 2011, but OpenOffice is still around and kicking.
The metrics show AOO development is moribund.