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Article #621968Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: John Levine
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:18
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:18
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In article <fk45t5...@mid.individual.net>, Huge <use...@huge.org.uk> wrote: >> Microsoft are not idiots. If they thought there was a market for >> Office on linux they would port it to linux. > >No need. I interoperated with an office full of MS weenies for years >using LibreOffice and no-one ever noticed. You were lucky. I have done a lot of work that involves sending Word docs back and forth and Libreoffice is hopeless if the docs use anything beyond the simplest formatting features. I wish Libre worked better, but it doesn't. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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