One word: VAPORWARE Why pine for the days that Microsoft will port MS Office to Linux when you can use OpenOffice?
I believe self-respecting, freedom loving, cost-conscious and ethically upright FOSS advocates and computer users would and should practice what they preach when all they have to do is use the PC for word processing, spreadsheet and presentations. On 8/19/06, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Sanders at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, vnunet.com 18 Aug 2006 Microsoft will release a version of Office to run on Linux within the "next couple of years", according to the chief executive of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). Read the details here: . http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2162570/microsoft-office-linux PMana ________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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