On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:29:02 -0600, Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > Why would I run Linux to run m$ office? > > It would be easier to just run XP and m$ office. > Not in my book. I HAVE to use xp and MS office at work and OUTLOOK. my cube neighbors often comment that I mutter "WTF is xp doing now...." several times a day... Fricking hour glass.... I use rdesktop from my linux box (so I can continue to work while XP figures stuff out) and open office when I can - xp file brower is soo "gad damn" slow I drives me Knuts! I spend more time waiting for outlook to display and send email than I do actually reading and writing email! If work paid for the license - I'd run it - I loose a lot when I open /save in ooffice - fonts size and type change, inedtions, bullets numbers, links etc all change enough to make me use office for doc orinally created in office. For new docs I use ooffice and convert to Office if someone other than myself needs to see/open/edit. > Sam. > > Tom Penney wrote: > >> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:57, sk3tch wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Can't you look at this as the positive it is? IBM is obviously >>> putting a lot of focus on Linux as a desktop - no matter what THIS IS >>> GOOD. >> >> I second that. "It doesn't run MS Office" is probably the single biggest >> excuse the average joe uses for not giving linux a try. Sure Open office >> is great but it is not MS Office. Like it or no MS office is what the >> world uses and knows. MS Office is the first thing corporate America >> trains people to use. MS Office running well on linux is good for linux, >> even if I will never run in. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list