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Moving away from MS products in every part of our office

by 21kev Aug 31, 2005 1:31AM PDT

As the Network Administrator here, I am moving our company away from MS Office and towards Open Office version 2.0. To support Open Office, I bought the boxed set from Fry's in Houston at a fraction of the price of MS Office. For email we are moving towards Thunderbird, and Firefox for the browser. Its amazing, if you remove active X support in your browser a lot of your problems go away. To build web pages we use Post Nuke instead of MS Front Page. Why someone would spend several hundred dollars on software, (where you can get something for less money or free and it will do the job just as well) is beyond me. Our web page is hosted on a Linux server, and our email server is Qmail.

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Move away from MS???
by linux1357 Aug 31, 2005 7:03AM PDT

That version still runs on Microsoft windows XP right?

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open office
by 21kev Sep 9, 2005 7:05AM PDT

Open office runs on windows xp and 200 just fine.

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by linux1357 Jun 16, 2006 10:15AM PDT

I can't live without Microsoft Dominating my world and every move.

--I hope people can tell that I am being sarcastic.

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by linux_1357 Oct 21, 2009 10:39PM PDT

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