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Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, ...
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XDA Developers on MSNEven the Danish government is sick of Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice insteadMicrosoft still makes the most popular desktop OS and Office suite in the world, but people — and even governments — are getting tired.
Linux has made a big impact in the server room, but usability issues and lock-in to Microsoft Office have conspired to hold it back on the desktop. That all just changed.
Office suites are important productivity tools that many of us depend on day in and day out. Fortunately, we have a range of office options to choose from in Linux.
Everything you need to switch successfully from Windows to Linux—including hardware, software, and Windows license management ...
One of the biggest gripes by users coming to Linux from Windows is that Microsoft Office is not available for Linux. That might be changing, according to the Adventures in openSUSE Linux blog.
There's a lot of chatter about 2007 being the "Year of the Linux Desktop," but what about the "Linux Office"? The CRN Test Center took a crack at putting together an open-source environment for a ...
SoftMaker Office could be a first-class professional-strength replacement for Microsoft Office on the Linux desktop. The Linux OS has its share of lightweight word processors and a few nearly worthy ...
As scores of tech companies tripped over each other last week to show support for Linux, Microsoft was busy squelching rumors that it is quietly developing a Linux version of Office.
If you buy 10 machines, opting for Linux could save you $1,000. (The trick is finding a vendor that offers the option. I know Dell does.) Ubuntu, like all Linux distributions, is free. And pretty ...
The big question, in my eyes, is whether there's actually significant demand for Office for Linux. On a good day, Linux has perhaps 1 or 2% of the desktop market.
If you open a Microsoft Office document in LibreOffice or OpenOffice, you’ll need Microsoft’s fonts installed on your Linux system to see the documents as they were intended to look.
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