View Poll Results: Office 2008 for Linux (Home and Student Edition). What would you do?

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  • YESSSSSS. Finally!!!! I'm buying it right now......

    33 15.14%

  • NOPE. Waiting for Wine to make it work. That's FREE as in beer.

    4 1.83%

  • NO WAY. I've got OpenOffice at home. Works just fine.

    144 66.06%

  • NO WAY will I support Microsoft, even if it does work on Linux!!!

    37 16.97%
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  1. December 19th, 2008 #81
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    Re: Microsoft Office 2008 for Linux (Home and Student Edition)

    I LOL'ed. Some people are really funny.
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  2. December 19th, 2008 #82
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    Re: Microsoft Office 2008 for Linux (Home and Student Edition)

    I'd buy it. Even though I hate the 07-08 interface compared to the old 03, I still have a better feel for it than OO.o or Abiword.
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    Re: Microsoft Office 2008 for Linux (Home and Student Edition)

    Quote Originally Posted by bruce89 View Post
    AbiWord and LaTeX come to mind.
    Might have to try LaTeX - can anyone point me to good tutorials and a GUI to get started?
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  4. December 19th, 2008 #84
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    Re: Microsoft Office 2008 for Linux (Home and Student Edition)

    I'd pass. I've gotten used to my OOo for Windows and for Linux, so there'd really be zero need for me to use it.
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