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+-   Report: Companies using MS Word "out of habit&-> on Sunday January 11 2009, @08:38PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 11 2009, @08:38PM
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An anonymous reader writes "A Forrester Research report has found that companies use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web has changed the way people create and share documents. The report, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story," by analyst Sheri McLeish, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option."
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