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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:36, Dallas Smith wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.html
> Wal-Mart: $199 PC sells briskly

Sony dumps Microsoft for StarOffice
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-976239.html

Sun Microsystems announced a deal Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice
software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from
dominant Microsoft products. 

By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on
most consumer desktop PCs sold in the United Kingdom, France, Spain,
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to Sun. Microsoft's Works
package is currently used on most of those PCs.

The deal makes Sony the first top-tier PC maker to use StarOffice and
marks another dent in Microsoft's dominance of office applications, a
market led by Works and its more expensive business-oriented sibling,
Microsoft Office. 

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