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protomyth on Dec 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True

Microsoft took over in the office suite realm in the transition from DOS to Windows. Plenty of folks said 1-2-3 and Word Perfect were not going anywhere. I do wonder if anyone is going to exploit the mouse/keyboard to touch transition?

nazgulnarsil on Dec 8, 2012 [–]

Computer use wasn't nearly as ubiquitous then. A disruption to MS Office would be several orders of magnitude larger.

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