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IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the couldn't-hurt-things dept.

shfted! writes "OSNews reports: As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation."

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  1. Re:Why ? by spoonyfork · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 Insightful! Wish I had mod points to give you...

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  2. Re:Why ? by LaissezFaire · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Troll. Linux isn't compatible with linux, either. My Fedora packages don't work right on Yggdrasil. The world hasn't ended.

  3. WIne (CodeWeavers) has already done this... by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I just downloaded the CodeWeavers CrossoverOffice libraries, and holy cow -- it really works. I need to be able to run Microsoft Word occasionally within my organization (Word is, unfortunately, the very best group document development package I've found, largely because of the annotation and change tracking capabilities), and in the past I've either dual-booted or used VMWare to get into M$ Office, but Wine/Codeweavers runs it natively. Apparently, the free Wine will run Office just fine if you use native Losedows DLLs that you copy over from your Losedows installation.