On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:09:43PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: > Preface: I'm not starting a war, but.... > > I have my linux (HP, Sun et al) machines where I run Oracle, write my perl > scripts, monkey with DBI/DBD/Mod_perl stuff, but I like the M$ Office suite, > IE, and outlook. > > I don't love M$, but I like their above products.
So do I, except for Office. Office is horrid. Interface is great - but the resulting files are horrid. Especially compared to what I can do with TeX or Apache's XML tools. > I tried to make the > switch to a linux desktop but didn't like the apps. I promise you guys, if > M$ ported Office, IE, and Outlook to *nix, you'd all be using them. Not a chance. For a long time, I had lamented that there were no browsers even *close* to comparable to MSIE. Now with recent versions of Mozilla, I lament no more. In fact, I even prefer to use Mozilla on my Windows machine. Outlook I've never missed. Never liked it much anyway, and mutt, or emacs' rmail-mode, offers me the ability to read my mail without reaching for the mouse (which can be annoying). However, if I *did* miss Outlook, I'd switch to Evolution - in fact, I am experimentally switching anyway. However, that Mozilla and Evolution have "stolen" so much from MSIE and Outlook are testaments to their solid GUI design (despite their crappy security, etc.). So obviously, those are some of MS's good products. But better ones now exist. As to Office - I haven't used a Word Processor in a couple years. Not nearly enough power to 'em. Sure, the interface is convenient, but it's *power*, not convenience, that I crave - and for that, the choice is clear: content-oriented (vs. format-oriented) typesetting tools like TeX or FOP. Nobody's ever made a Word document can touch my DocBook documents. And I'm not even that good. Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
