MSOffice usage comfort: Wine or VM+Rdesktop?

2011-09-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, My boss obliges me to use MSword for writing some core business documents. I have then the choice (duh!) either to: - Wine - Install a full virtual Windows then access it via rdesktop I already used the second choice but is the Wine alternative more comfortable at usage? -- RMA.

Re: MSOffice usage comfort: Wine or VM+Rdesktop?

2011-09-01 Thread Francis Bolduc
Hi, I never had good results installing Microsoft Office with wine. However, VirtualBox has this seamless mode which is as close as you can get from a native experience. It plays nice with compiz most of the time, but it has a few rough edges. Try it out. Ah, and if your boss obliges you to use

Re: MSOffice usage comfort: Wine or VM+Rdesktop?

2011-09-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/01/2011 04:27 PM, Francis Bolduc wrote: Ah, and if your boss obliges you to use Microsoft Word, you should try to convince him that producing Microsoft Word documents with LibreOffice is functionally equivalent, but without the license fee. Business people usually understand free as in