At 7:42 PM -0500 02/02/2006, Tim Collier wrote:
Stupid question here: What would make you want to 'gift' a 1000
G3's with Office? Gift them without and let the user decide what he
wants to use.
Office may be a bad example. The bottom line is that machines given
to those who cannot afford t
On Feb 2, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
You know how when you open Word, you get that little Window over on
the right for formatting? Windows version never had that, you
always had to search and eventually find the formatting that you
wanted.
That's been available for years, it j
On Feb 2, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
Stupid question here: What would make you want to 'gift' a 1000
G3's with Office? Gift them without and let the user decide what
he wants to use.
My impression was that the computers are to those who have little
experience with or money fo
Stupid question here: What would make you want to 'gift' a 1000 G3's
with Office? Gift them without and let the user decide what he wants
to use. And then there's always Appleworks. I've used it and like
it except there are some parts of it that I don't care for--like the
'database'. A
Especially when you consider that Office by Microsoft was out for the
Mac before it was available for the PC. Microsoft has done some
great stuff in putting together the Mac version. I saw a site
promoting the new version that's coming out for Windows. Strangely
enough it has a lot of th
Raino --
I didn't miss your point; I added to it. And... yes, it would be
prohibitively expensive for a non-profit to spend that much on a lot of 1000
machines.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You missed the point A.J. I'm talking about MONEY, not compatibility. If I
am gifting 1000 G3s - I a
You missed the point A.J. I'm talking about MONEY, not compatibility. If I
am gifting 1000 G3s - I am not buying MS Office for them. As a nonprofit I
can get MS Office for my staff at $20.00 a pop, but I sure can't afford to
put it on 1000 computers
raino
On 2/2/06 8:38 AM, "MorningAJ" <[E
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Think we could drop Microsoft Office on those G3s? Nah.
FWIW, Office 2004 runs like a champ on my G3 iBook 700.
I'll stress again that, for the most part, Microsoft apps written for
the Mac generally tend to be quite nice - especially when compared with
thei
Heya,
There are some yummy freebies here, and you can soft the software by
type - free, commercial, shareware, beta etc:
http://www.macmusic.org/home/?lang=EN
Some of it runs on WallStreets. It's a deliberate challenge that was
also forced upon me to make music on a WallStreet (I'm still figurin
Hey there, I am with you on anything free for the Mac. We gift PCs and Macs
to folks who don't have access to technology. We have placed ton's o' Macs.
Think we could drop Microsoft Office on those G3s? Nah. We'll use the free
Corel Word Perfect version 3.5, Abiword, Open Office, whatever is compat
10 matches
Mail list logo
