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Nero for Linux!!!!!!
Calum:
yes, i have often noticed things like MSN messenger, ms outlook, visual basic etc directories in windows. i suspect it's all part of their plan to "cheat" by sticking some of it in the OS already. after all, you can't run MS office on anything but windows, so they can put some of the code in the OS. and of course this would make it even harder to run MS office under for instance wine, i would have thought.
yahurd:
--- Quote ---Whoooaaaaaaa!!!!
Guys, I didn't mean to start a war here....I just really like Nero, and I thought it was great that a mainstream program is being ported to Linux. Which means that Linux is finally being recognized as a viable option to Windoze.
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its big news. that is the only way to react to big news and thank you as orethrius reminded me.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: yahurd ---it has taken competitors a long while to become msoffice compatible because it was proprietary, all an office suite would have to do is open-save odfs, if it was fantastic and came from a well known source, and gained 80% marketshare in a year and then decided to make some proprietary extensions, viola lock-in
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Why should you worry about a bit of competition?
If you believe that free software is better than proprietary software then that won't happen and if they've written a superiour product then I'm all for it. Still I can't see this happening on Linux, not with all the GNU fanboys around, for example if MS released MS Office for Linux could you seriously see it included with many distros?
--- Quote ---probably not yet, but its getting better very quickly
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Will it resume downloads that have been suspended due to a power failure or temporary disconnection?
--- Quote ---fair enough but would you mind stating those features? im just curious
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I'm sure there are many but the one I've noticed (and mentioned before in this thread) is the formula editor isn't as user friendly and it doesn't support more than one line. Apart from being a general pain in the arse, it gets worse when you need to open a Word document with formulae containing more than one line.
You also mentioned about how MS Office doesn't support ODF, well there are third party filters available and MS are actually supporting an open source project to create a filter for Word 97!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software#Microsoft
yahurd:
--- Quote ---Will it resume downloads that have been suspended due to a power failure or temporary disconnection?
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as i said, not yet but soon
--- Quote ---You also mentioned about how MS Office doesn't support ODF, well there are third party filters available and MS are actually supporting an open source project to create a filter for Word 97!
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my point is, in the support for competiters programs, openoffice is lightyears ahead.
Aloone_Jonez:
Still, aren't you surprised that Microsoft, (yes Microsoft of all people) are supporting an open source project to add ODF support to MS Word?
I suppose as OpenOffice.org's user-base grows particularly over in the far east, businesses here will need to be able to inter-operate with them so MS will eventually have no choice but to support it.
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