suse@rio.vg wrote:
Personally, I don't buy the claim. Windows is MS's cash cow, porting their apps to linux at this point seems backwards to me. But then, it's MS, so who knows what goes on through those greedy little minds?
Bear in mind that they ported Office to the Mac, thus killing a couple of good suites that had been keeping Mac users happy. Why not try the same with linux? Someone said MS Office was an enterprise-class suite. My experience has been that it had several defects that would have kept me from using it except that it was required by the suits at my employers. It's full of features, some nice, but also bugs, some irritating. And, of course, until Word 97, you couldn't stop buying new versions because they broke your old documents unless you used the converters, which _usually_ worked ok, with only a bit of repair needed. But all the other suits were "upgrading", so yours had to... I wonder why MS stopped making new versions incompatible with old versions? John Perry