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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org