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Article #621963Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:01
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:01
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On Tue, 2018-04-24, J Clarke wrote: > On 23 Apr 2018 07:54:45 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> > wrote: > >>On Sun, 2018-04-22, J Clarke wrote: >>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:51:54 +0200, "Carlos E.R." >>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >>... >>>>And no, there are places that would acclaim it. For instance those >>>>cities that are switching to Linux and employees claim that they can not >>>>do the same thing with LO as with O. Ok, there you have: O. Shut up and >>>>work. >>> >>> You can't do the same things with LO as you can with O. Try to make >>> APL create, populate and format a spreadsheet with coloring depending >>> on content. And before you say "shell script", actually _do_ it with >>> a shell script and get back to us on how well it worked. >>> >>>>No chance MS is going to allow that to happen. >>> >>> I think at this point Microsoft would be delighted to be out from >>> under maintaining the operating system. >> >>And the organizations would be no better off running Outlook, >>Office and Office 365 on top of Linux than on Windows. > > Actually it would be worse off unless COM was somehow added to Linux. Maybe so; I never quite understood what COM, OLE, ActiveX and all that stuff was about. There's something called DBUS in Linux though, which might be similar. I try to disable it as much as I can. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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