The city of houston is now giving away computers loaded with an office suite called SimDesk. This software is not as robust as Microsoft office, but what it lacks in features,it makes up for in price. There are 13,000 computer being distributed to local businesses and home users. This will be a great chance for microsoft to loose a large share of its market. Well, at least they know how to deal with microsoft, especialy since they can't even name a football team properly (the texans? wtf...im from Houston and i swear thats even dumber than our other sports teams names)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-01-21-simdesk-cover_x.htm