I KNOW that's happening. And I know it's happened in the past. I just do not look forward to the day that Microsoft invades this community. Honestly, if Microsoft can produce a RELIABLE, STABLE, EFFICIENT product for Linux, I'd use it. Corporate users, for the most part, aren't using linux because of the difficulty of supporting such a system. But let's be real... How often does linux crash? How often does a program just stop working for no apparent reason? How often doe linux just stop loading properly, having a corrupt rc.config or something else like that (MS registry) and the user is forced to reinstall the OS and all of the software? MS introducing Office into the linux community would (as past experience tells us) start this chain of events. And do we really want a linux-user.dat and linux-system.dat floating around on our system? MS DID a lot of good for the computer industry, but they're not being productive anymore. Linux might not be the newest concept in the world... a quick, stable OS.... but MS doesn't comprehend.
Let's be real. Most of us turned out backs on Microsoft/Windows because the code is bloated, slow, and unstable. Microsoft's code (like we don't already know it) is so overly bloated, it competes for space a stable operating system could be using. And do we really want to let Microsoft invade our precious *NIX world? If we wanted slow, bloated, buggy, unstable code, we'd use Windows. Me? I'll stick with KOffice, StarOffice, or Word Perfect.
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I KNOW that's happening. And I know it's happened in the past. I just do not look forward to the day that Microsoft invades this community. Honestly, if Microsoft can produce a RELIABLE, STABLE, EFFICIENT product for Linux, I'd use it. Corporate users, for the most part, aren't using linux because of the difficulty of supporting such a system. But let's be real... How often does linux crash? How often does a program just stop working for no apparent reason? How often doe linux just stop loading properly, having a corrupt rc.config or something else like that (MS registry) and the user is forced to reinstall the OS and all of the software? MS introducing Office into the linux community would (as past experience tells us) start this chain of events. And do we really want a linux-user.dat and linux-system.dat floating around on our system? MS DID a lot of good for the computer industry, but they're not being productive anymore. Linux might not be the newest concept in the world... a quick, stable OS.... but MS doesn't comprehend.
Let's be real. Most of us turned out backs on Microsoft/Windows because the code is bloated, slow, and unstable. Microsoft's code (like we don't already know it) is so overly bloated, it competes for space a stable operating system could be using.
And do we really want to let Microsoft invade our precious *NIX world? If we wanted slow, bloated, buggy, unstable code, we'd use Windows.
Me? I'll stick with KOffice, StarOffice, or Word Perfect.