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Linux-Watch: Office 12 Opens the Door to OpenOffice

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Mar 4, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Microsoft’s Office 12 is coming, and eWEEK’s Peter Galli has
found that even shops that believe in Microsoft
products–the fools! the fools!–are having doubts about it and are
thinking about other alternatives.

“The main problem is that Office 12 has a new user
interface.

“Previously, if you knew Word For Windows 2.x and you were
dropped in front of Word 2003, you might fumble around a bit, but
the skills you learned on one would still serve you in good stead
on the more modern word processor.

“That’s not the case with Office 12…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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