WTF - Everex gPC3 + MS Office <-- Combo deal on Newegg

[jwkolberg]

Are they deliberately trying to trick people!?!?

[ropers]

Granted, it's not FOSS, but if you really are forced to deal with Word/Excel/PowerPoint files on a regular basis, and if slight layout changes due to conversion to .odf are not acceptable, then this looks like a decent enough deal to me.

[Prefix100]

Granted, it's not FOSS, but if you really are forced to deal with Word/Excel/PowerPoint files on a regular basis, and if slight layout changes due to conversion to .odf are not acceptable, then this looks like a decent enough deal to me.

That may be so, but the fact still remains - It won't work on Ubuntu.

[ropers]

That may be so, but the fact still remains - It won't work on Ubuntu.

Maybe you should actually check out weblinks that are given in posts you're replying to? It would sure save you from looking stupid.

[zmjjmz]

Wait, since when was the gPC using an AMD Sempron?
Wasn't is supposed to be resource-unhungry?
Couldn't they use the VIA Nano?

[TBOL3]

Maybe you should actually check out weblinks that are given in posts you're replying to? It would sure save you from looking stupid.

Still, I wine implementation is NOT acceptable.

[handy]

Still, I wine implementation is NOT acceptable.

Then use Crossover.

[bloodniece]

Then use Crossover.

Crossover IS an implementation of Wine.

From Crossover Site:
"Running Wine or CrossOver: Unlike emulation, Wine is a re-implementation of the Win32 API, allowing applications to run as if natively on the target OS. CrossOver is a commercialized version of Wine."

[handy]

Crossover IS an implementation of Wine.

From Crossover Site:
"Running Wine or CrossOver: Unlike emulation, Wine is a re-implementation of the Win32 API, allowing applications to run as if natively on the target OS. CrossOver is a commercialized version of Wine."

I know, they are the major contributors to Wine. It is what some of the Wine dev's do so they can eat.