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Wired Talks Wine

Posted by Hemos on from the run-it-better-faster dept.

matroid writes "Wired reports that the upcoming WINE version 1.0 may be just what Linux needs to get users to migrate from Windows to Linux."

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  1. WHY SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON M$ OFFICE? by evilviper · · Score: 1, Troll

    This CRAP is driving me NUTS!!! Why is it that every journalist in the world believes that a port of M$ Office to Linux will magically bring users en mass to Linux? Linux has Applix Ware, Word Perfect, Think Free Office, and the "Completely free and completely compatible with M$": StarOffice/OpenOffice.

    The Word/Excel/PwrPoint/Access replacement applications are there, and in my opinion, better than the M$ Programs they replace.

    So what idiot can still believe that one single application is so powerful that it's keeping millions of people from switching to a more stable, more versitile, completely free Operating System?

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