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On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:51:54 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-04-22 04:11, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:44:22 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-04-21 18:43, John Levine wrote:
>>>> In article <pbfi85$ek7$1...@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer  <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> ... by its monopolistic attitude towards the PC now
>>>>> that the World and its family are moving en masse to the
>>>>> ARM processors?
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft doesn't care what processors people use.  There are versions
>>>> of Windows for all sorts of chips and of Office for all sorts of
>>>> operating systems.
>>>
>>> Ah, yes? Care to say where can we download Office for Linux?
>> 
>> Depends on how you define "Linux".  There is an Android version and an
>> OS/X version.  Most people who use Linux as Linux would reject
>> anything from Microsoft on general principle so they probably quite
>> rightly see no market there.
>
>So, there is no Office for all operating systems as claimed.

There was no claim that ther was "Office for all operating systems".

The claim was "all sorts of operating systems".  If you are not a
native speaker of English you might believe that the "sorts of" is
redundant but in fact this is a well known expression that simplifies
to "many", not "all".

>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.