[Am-info] Announcing CrossOver Office

Geoffrey esoteric@3times25.net
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:51:36 -0500


Sujal Shah wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:42, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Sujal Shah wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm checking to see if my office will pay for the product, since we've
>>>already paid for the Office license.  I'll post if people are interested
>>>in the results.
>>>
>>I am very much interested.  At this point, I've tried Applixware, 
>>Staroffice, openoffice.  Not one renders word documents 100%.  That's my 
>>grail, accurate translation.  I'd be surprised if it does.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure if you fully understood the nature of CrossOver Office...
> it's not a word processing suite.  It's a specially packaged version of
> WINE that is geared towards running Office itself.  So, translation
> isn't an issue.  You're running Word/Excel/PPT itself, just via WINE in
> Linux.
> 
> Let me know if I misunderstood your message.

No, I understood it, just hadn't had enought coffee.  It was a long 
night.  Problem is, I've still stuck with giving money to M$ for their 
lousy product...

> 
> Sujal
> 
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?