[KLUG Members] Re: MS Office for Linux? Not quite--but close!

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:41, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> I also went through some of the disussions on the
> article and was impressed with one company that said
> their large Excel spreadsheets ran better in Excel on
> Linux with Crossover then it did on Windows!!  :-)

In the case of DOS-based Windows, this may be true.  In the case of
NT-based Windows, I'd have a hard time believing.

Linux will _never_ be a better Windows than Windows.  Emulation,
virtualization or otherwise, the problem with Windows has always been
its applications and their DOS-base, not NT-based Windows.  Furthermore,
using a vendor lock-in application on a free platform is still vendor
lock-in.

-- Bryan

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