They don't know anything about Sun Microsystems or Oracle. They typed 'Open Office' or maybe 'OpenOffice' or some variation into Google, and what they get is the Apache project's almost abandoned 4.1.1 release with the afore-mentioned security hole. _That_ person probably still doesn't know Libre Office is the de facto replacement.Īnd it doesn't matter that to _you_ the sophisticated subscriber to an online forum about an operating system kernel there is a distinction between '' and 'Apache Open Office'. A friend, family member, somebody who goes to the same gym.

The office software installed on their PC, if it's not a copy of Office 365 helpfully bundled (for a pretty sum) when they purchased the PC is the choice of the moderately tech-savvy person who they asked for help to pick it. So they're not making any sort of decision about office suite brands because they've only the vaguest idea of what an 'office suite' would even be, let alone which brands exist or what the benefits could be of one brand over another. They are quite likely to call their copy of, say, Firefox 'The Internet' or 'Google' or indeed 'Microsoft'.

'Typical' Windows users are now the ordinary man in the street, and they have no interest in IT whether in technology or brands.

Or more precisely, I can't agree with you that they're the people who matter in this equation. I can't agree with you that 'typical' Windows and OS X users haven't heard of it.

Apache openoffice 4.1.2 software