Download speed is not what I was referring to, simply the load speed on my computer. After reading replies, it appears that 30 seconds to load is not the average time for most people, so perhaps my linux skills are sub-par. At any rate, that's how it works for me. M$'s office just is quicker for me, and therefore, my first choice.
(no, this is not flamebait...) I'm a big fan of OSS, but I don't have the thirty minutes it takes for OO.org to load on my 1ghz machine. Microsoft's products simply work. They load in a decent amount of time and have very few bugs that infringe on the way that I choose to use them. Sorry, but if the OSS group wants to get into my suite of office applications, they've got to work much better than they do now.
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Download speed is not what I was referring to, simply the load speed on my computer. After reading replies, it appears that 30 seconds to load is not the average time for most people, so perhaps my linux skills are sub-par. At any rate, that's how it works for me. M$'s office just is quicker for me, and therefore, my first choice.
(no, this is not flamebait...) I'm a big fan of OSS, but I don't have the thirty minutes it takes for OO.org to load on my 1ghz machine. Microsoft's products simply work. They load in a decent amount of time and have very few bugs that infringe on the way that I choose to use them. Sorry, but if the OSS group wants to get into my suite of office applications, they've got to work much better than they do now.
Accessible sites for the vision impared in the olympics: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/28/1143249.shtm l
I was fortunate to be within sixty miles of this explosion today, and I can say that it looked incredible in person.
Can't say you didn't expect this.. However, now that I think about it, I could use another way to buy vi@gra!
Just yesterday I was thinking "Man, I think the linux community could take off anytime now, we just need one more distro..."
In other news... SCO's lawyers have started filing suits with all other unix variants...
Do they have to own a cricket phone? Cricket communications