Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

[Deryk Barker <dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca>]

Thus spake kmark+debian@pipeline.com (kmark+debian@pipeline.com):

> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine
> > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted
> > > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding.
> > >
> >
> > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux.
> >
> > m
> Hi Matthew,
> Have you heard of the programs 'open office' and 'abiword'. they both can
> read and write DOC files.

Also, despite earlier claims, OpenOffice has a presentation package
and a pretty good filter for PowePoint (I have imported a 100-slide
presentation with no major problems).

And the 1.1 version is a real advance over the various 1.0.x flavours.
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