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:Australian PC Authority: Microsoft Office for Linux 'Inevitable'
Australian PC Authority: Microsoft Office for Linux 'Inevitable'
Aug 18, 2006, 15 :45 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (6535 reads)
(Other stories by Tom Sanders)

"Microsoft within the 'next couple of years' will release a version of its Office productivity to run on Linux, Stuart Cohen, chief executive for the Open Source Development Labs, predicted in an interview with vnunet.com at the Linuxworld conference in San Francicso.

"'They did it once with Apple, they will do it again with Linux,' Cohen said..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
This "story" surfaces every so often. I ...   What, again?   
David F. Skoll
Aug 18, 2006, 16:01:27  
Tell me again; just *WHY* would I want t ...   Why again?   
James E LaBarre
Aug 18, 2006, 16:26:03  
> This "story" surfaces every so often. ...   Re: What, again?   
Uno Engborg
Aug 18, 2006, 16:28:59  
You have $500 plus $35.00 for tax and $3 ...   Why not, $499.00 per CPU of course.   
George Van Tuyl
Aug 18, 2006, 17:23:44  
Microsoft Office was developed for the M ...   Misinformed. MS Excel, etc came out for the Mac FI   
ac@foo.com
Aug 18, 2006, 17:24:21  
A Mac port of Office makes sense because ...   nonsense   
Zeroth404
Aug 18, 2006, 17:46:03  
Gates will never allow it, because it wo ...   It would be admitting defeat.   
Bob Robertson
Aug 18, 2006, 20:03:14  
MS will certainly be offering "low cost" ...   I don't think so   
Rick Stockton
Aug 18, 2006, 20:07:12  
It's better for all if MS does not p ...   History will repeat itself   
da
Aug 18, 2006, 20:47:06  
It is really strange to see 'inevita ...   Why Microsoft should port Office if an OSDL member   
Cesar Rabak
Aug 18, 2006, 21:20:40  
then Microsoft could claim Linux is no l ...   At least if they did port it...   
ck
Aug 19, 2006, 04:11:57  
What difference does it make? FOSS is ev ...   Re: At least if they did port it...   
xxx
Aug 19, 2006, 21:53:04  
Wow, coffee is such a rush. Makes me tal ...   yawn   
gnumber9
Aug 21, 2006, 01:03:30  
The problem with this assertion is that ...   Not gonna happen   
Steve
Aug 21, 2006, 15:37:42  
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