On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:11 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:35 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Since I have to use MS Office every now and then I would consider to run alternatively Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable and reliable ? Yes, others recommend VirtualBox though (free too). Or if it is just for that: Crossover Office, which is not free. Which one is easier to install and backup ?
I do all my work in OO and to send it I save as MS office. If it is a complicated stuff or a presentation I do a quick check with MS running under crossover. Crossover works great with word, excel and pp. If you want outlook or access it will not work.
Just to save some expenses:
I "save as" MS Office, from OOorg, as you do.
However, For the "quick check" whether my documents will look ok with MS, I use wine and the Microsoft Office Viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
As least they were made by Microsoft for people who still do not have MS-Office on their machines. ;-))
They work great with wine (At least the versions up to Office 2003 do) and best of all: They are free (as in beer) and
I do not need to buy crossover or MS Office or a Windows License for a virtual machine.
I also used outlook 2003 with wine connecting to an Exchange Server on SuSE 10.1, I believe.
So wine is
Eberhard, That's a good tip! In my case I get MS office so I do not have to buy it. Crossover as you know come from the developers of wine. It is an excellent product that not only facilitate wine installation like firefox plugins etc but also makes backup and configuration of win programs fast and easy. Furthermore I believe a small fee to get crossover is my way to contribute to the developers of wine..and this is my most important reason to buy crossover. I do not use outlook but I though it did not run with wine or crossover. Do you remember any special setup. Ciao -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org