OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany

hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine the installed office suites of millions of web users: they look for the availability of characteristic fonts being shipped with the various suites. What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."

Re:Gee...maybe

[girlintraining]

Wow...you are one easy-t-please individual - would you also be surprised if you found out they are one and the same...?

Well, that's rather prejudiced! Germans know how to separate home and work life, and as soon as I find one, I'll give you an example.

All about the fonts, baby

[damn_registrars]

That's right. As long as Microsoft controls Zapf Wingdings, OpenOffice will never take off.

Re:methodology?

[girlintraining]

Darn, I was about to argue against your point, but I couldn't find a flaw in your argument.

I know. I'm scared too.

Re:methodology?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just surprised you didn't find a way to tie your being female in with your reply.

Re:I have introduced a lot of people to OO.org

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a game where you pretend that you write RPG rulebooks. If you've written one that's 500 pages long you're probably at around level 30.