I don't suppose you've tried VMWare, or Wine?
Russell
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>From: Mike Manchester <mchester@yahoo.com>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Want Linux on your desktop? Nine reasons to forget about it
>Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2001, 7:28
>
> Linux will never make it on the Desktop because:
>
> It's not the GUI or how much it looks like Windows. The real reason Linux will
> never make the Desktop is because of companies using proprietary software
> i.e MS
> apps. case in point:
>
> My company uses Microsoft Word for all there important docs. From time to time
> I need to modify these documents and redistribute them. And I have yet to
> find a
> Linux based program that will read edit and save a Microsoft Word file.
> I've tried
> Staroffice (which does a pretty good job of converting the word file but
> hoses it
> when saving, so that Microsoft Word can no longer read it as it was
> originally).
> Applixware loses things in the conversion. WordPerfect 8 I can't to convert
the
> document. It says it's converting but never completes the conversion. So
> because my
> company won't use a format that can be read and modified with anything but
> Microsoft software, I can't get rid of Windows, even though I use Linux daily
> I have to keep Microsoft Windows on my machine to do this kind of thing.
> And now
> with Microsoft dropping support for all products except Win 2k and Xp and
> Office 2k
> and Office XP. I will be forced to upgrade to the new products just to do
> my job.
>
> So until companies go the open source route and get rid of this proprietary
> document formats I have no choice in the matter.
>
> I can't wait to see what My company does when it has to supply everyone
> with new
> license of Microsoft software just so we can read all the documents they have
> stored in Word format.
>
> So lack of compatibility will keep Linux from the desktop, will at least my
> desktop
> and all the desktops of people that have to rely on Microsoft formatted
> Documents.
>
> Mike M.
>
>
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