Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Deryk Barker wrote:
> 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.
Hi Deryk,
Thanks for the update! Its great to know that the OO people are really
on the ball! And now I can recommend Knoppix w OO even more
emphatically.
-Kev
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