I don't think that's automatically true, though. Now, one of the easy formulas I've heard bandied around is that each copy of OO.o downloaded represents that many less copies of Microsoft Office sold. This means the active pool of OO.o users is far larger than 5 million - but, again, the exact numbers are by definition impossible to nail down. It also doesn't track people who use one of the OO.o derivatives - Symphony, or StarOffice, or Go-OO. I wonder if that's at least part of the reason why Linux has a smaller slice of the pie they don't have to go to the OO.o site to get the program, and so their usage isn't tracked this way. Keep in mind also that none of these numbers even include the people who get and use OO.o regularly from their local Linux repository.
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People who download a new version of an app within the first few days of its gold/RTM version release are almost certainly existing users, so the numbers we're seeing are probably a good reflection of how many really devoted, core OO.o users there are. Then again, as my friends in the indie-publishing and -recording spaces have found out time and again, it's word of mouth that's the best advertising of all.Ī couple of things are striking, apart from the mere fact that so many of the downloads are Windows. That's not too shabby for what is intended to be a mainstream productivity application that doesn't even have an ad campaign. The most recent stats are even more impressive - 5.2 million downloads, with more than 4.4 million of those for Windows.