Quoting Elky Grrrr... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > if MS would make software for linux, or make a linux distro... it > would be the best linux suite ever!!!
I remember MS-Word when it wasn't yet bloated and unstable. The last version that I remember qualifying was 5.1a for MacOS, and 2.0b for MS-Windows 3.x. I still enjoy running MacWord 5.1a in the Ardi Executor MacOS-emulation environment on my Sony VAIO that runs Debian. It was an excellent word processor, and people really stare when they see a Microsoft applications for MacOS running on an x86 Linux laptop. Too bad what they did with MS-Word and MS-Excel after that. I wouldn't touch subsequent versions with a sharp stick -- and that's not to mention the design horror and security disasters that are MS-Outlook and MS-Outlook Express, the data-integrity risk that is MS-Access, the useless data bloat that is MS-PowerPoint, and that generator of horrifically bad HTML, MS-Front Page. And the mind scarce has the courage to contemplate what they would do with an entire Linux distribution. Personally, I'm looking forward to the eventual re-release under the GPL of the Gobe Productive office suite from FreeRadicalSoftware, Inc. See: http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/future.html#ALTERNATIVES -- Cheers, "All power is delightful, but absolute power Rick Moen is absolutely delightful." - Kenneth Tynan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
