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Why do you think that Microsoft products are necessary to sell to large businesses? There might not be any large businesses that don't have any Microsoft products, but I've seen several successful sales to very large business by small companies without Microsoft products.

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I thought so, too; I work at a web design / marketing company, where I assumed we could use whatever we wanted as long as the site worked in IE and FF. But our clients send site copy revisions in Word, and screenshots of bugs in Powerpoint, and they want hour estimates in Excel.

I tried using OpenOffice for about a week, but having 99% of MS Office left me 1% short.

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