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DAMN NON-MS APPLICATIONS!!
zooloo:
I installed OpenOffice to "see what it's like" and I've not used MS Word since.
No probs with any Word doc - so far anyway.
Excel doc seem to be fine too.
MS's own software has compatibility problems with itself, not that MS are as honest about that as the open source folks are.
Doctor V:
Microsoft will always make their applications and other services as difficult as possible to run on non-M$ software. You can use staroffice to read M$ office documants, and you probably could get that zone website to work in Opera. But M$ has a long history of trying to keep competeing software from working either with M$ format documents or on wondoze at all. They have even been know to sabotoge competeing software. In fact, they are on trial for it in the EU. Its important that we do not reward M$ for this behavior. If they don't want us to see their web pages in competeing browsers, fine, lets not go to their pages at all. Lets not use their formats when possible. I know this may not always be possible for everyone, but every little bit helps. I suggest going to Linux today and taking it from there, you can always dual boot.
V
Centurian:
Well to test it I just went to the zone in opera 6.03. I set it to identify itself as IE 5 before I did. It seems to work fine. I did not play any of the games there but the main page loads fine.
xyle_one:
for shits and giggles i went to the zone with mozilla, and got this message
quote: Browser Not Supported
If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that you are using will not render zone.msn.com correctly. To play on the Zone you need a computer running Windows95 or greater and we recommend either Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater or Netscape 6.0 or greater.The Zone is best viewed with Internet Explorer. To get the latest version, please select the free download link below.
Get Microsoft Internet Explorer
Note that our Netscape 6 support is still under construction. Some games may not function properly while that support is being completed.If you do not want to upgrade your browser, you can still use the Zone, however some pages may not render properly and some games may not function properly. To continue using the Zone without upgrading your browser, click here
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bullshit. it rendered fine. at least they let me inside (though, i didnt really want to go in). but, i bet if they had their way,and the DOJ stayed off their backs, you couldnt get in without IE.
goddamn, i really hate them. :mad:
ecsyle_one
spinningheel4242:
Hey guys, I really appreciate all of the feedback on this one. Ok, I tried to get to MS zone and my bank CIBC, and guess what, no go. I wrote CIBC about this problem and they say they are working on it....ya...I'll believe it when I see it!!
As for getting to the zone using Opera, I haven't tried that yet. I'll have to install it and try. It is too bad that Mozilla won't work...or is there a way to change its identification??
Okay, now with the non-browser replies...
I have used Open Office on occation and it works great (until I copy and paste text from the web and then it is really hard to fix formatting). I have WordPerfect 2000 as well but the stupid thing crashes more than Windoze!! I have used Star Office...slow and crashed as well!! So, what I am saying is that there are alternative products out there, that work, but they either don't have the functionality or the stability of MS products (at least on my machine!!)
But, I will try to get past my short comings and really attempt to solely use Open Office instead of MS.
I am wondering though, how does Open Office stack up to MS in relation to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Frontpage?
Also, are there good WYSIWYG web design programs that run on Linux? And, what are some good Linux Distro's?
Thanks Again
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