MS Office NOT coming to Linux

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We had a short discussion on this a while back, and it seems that MS is not coming to the table with Office for Linux:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-is-not-coming-to-linux-7000011151/

My friends at Microsoft—yes I have some—tell me they'd never heard of such an effort and they can't believe that anything like that is afoot. Indeed, there's now a lot of doubt about Office for the iPad appearing and that looked like a sure bet not so long ago. At a rough guess, I'd say the iPad has about a thousand times as many users as the Linux desktop. So why exactly would Microsoft want to invest in Office for such a tiny market?
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:whistle:
 
I have not used MS Office since Office XP, so I would not know if I'm being punished with LibreOffice. :D
 
MyWorld said:
We had a short discussion on this a while back, and it seems that MS is not coming to the table with Office for Linux:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-is-not-coming-to-linux-7000011151/

:whistle:
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Both articles, this and the phoronix one are based on anonymous friend's sayings. I work at a small company, and I don't know every single thing everyone works on in this company, how can every person in M$ know what every other department is working on?

Anyways, we can't know for sure, and I think when I made that post, I said there is a chance it may come to Linux, never said it will come to Linux.

What I do believe, there may have been a small group in M$ looking at the possibilities of MS Office on Linux, looking at possibilities is one thing, actually getting the approval and going ahead with it is a completely different thing.
 
MyWorld said:
I have not used MS Office since Office XP, so I would not know if I'm being punished with LibreOffice. :D
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LibreOffice is awesome- I do 99% of my work in it and it works like a bomb. In fact I have now switched over on my windows PC, even though I have office installed.
 
ave said:
LibreOffice is awesome- I do 99% of my work in it and it works like a bomb. In fact I have now switched over on my windows PC, even though I have office installed.
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+1

I have Both Microsoft Office 2013 and LibreOffice installed, using Libre 99.999% of the time. The 0.0001 is just to test emails send to Outlook from our apps.
 
ave said:
LibreOffice is awesome- I do 99% of my work in it and it works like a bomb. In fact I have now switched over on my windows PC, even though I have office installed.
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It fails horribly on non-basic spreadsheets
 
MickZA said:
Snap! ... also excel spreadsheets because users are too lazy (or thick) to import & format csv files :)
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Why would you want to work on CSV files vs spreadsheets? You might as well just handwrite the cells out.
 
Microsoft is painting itself into a corner, which is where they belong. We have been ripped off by extravagant prices for buggy software for too long now and Excel specifically failed me many times where OpenOffice, LibreOffice and especially Lotus-1-2-3 did excel! MS Excel has its virtues but the price does not justify the acquisition thereof. The way in which Office 13 and beyond will require access to broadband and a forgiving data plan is just making it irrelevant to most in the SOHO market segment.

I had a weird experience over the past week - was working on XP SP3, went to the bathroom and returned to find Ubuntu being installed on my machine, from the DVD that was just sitting in the drive. I was alone at home, all doors were locked, no internet connection and the DVD started loading itself after it had been in the drive fro three days! Gone is the dual-boot now and this strange coincidence just made up my mind for me, finally, to go with Google, Android and Linux.
 
reneg8or said:
I had a weird experience over the past week - was working on XP SP3, went to the bathroom and returned to find Ubuntu being installed on my machine, from the DVD that was just sitting in the drive. I was alone at home, all doors were locked, no internet connection and the DVD started loading itself after it had been in the drive fro three days! Gone is the dual-boot now and this strange coincidence just made up my mind for me, finally, to go with Google, Android and Linux.
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god did it

/runs!!!!
 
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