If you read the article carefully, it mentions that the notebooks have a working modem... via a PC card. The extra price of the card probably nicely counter-balances the price of the MS license;>
Between buying WordPerfect and the release on Corel Linux, Corel has seen some pretty rough times. It seems clear, in retrospect, that many of Corel's problems came about as a direct result of buying WordPerfect and competing against Office. How would you characterize this assertion? If buying WordPerfect wasn't the main source of Corel's problems, what was?
As a side question, my wife and had been WP users since 5.0a (for DOS!), but have recently switched to Office, the standard in our offices. Do you think it's possible to lure people back from Office?
It does a lot to my state of mind to know that, if I were to quit my job tomorrow, I could find work in a coupla' weeks in, more or less, the same location.
And I guess it doesn't hurt that my wife has an even better job;)
... 'cause, when all is said and done, Mozilla is a part of AOL, and AOL isn't particularly concerned about Linux -- they still don't have Linux support for dial-up. And, frankly, given many Linux advocates' opinions about AOL, I can't blame them.
Netscape is fast approaching irrelevance. 4.6 is buggy, and its JVM is so bad that we were warned by one of providers not to use it for their new service. They reccomened 4.51 or "any 4.x or greater version of IE." It pains me to say it... but, I bet in a complete thrashing of browsers on Windows platforms, IE 4 would be more stable and more compatible with HTML standards.
I have a pretty strong suspicion that Mozilla will be too little too late.
Opera, on the other hand, looks *much* more promising... it's just not open source. But sometimes closed source isn't bad.
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If you read the article carefully, it mentions that the notebooks have a working modem ... via a PC card. The extra price of the card probably nicely counter-balances the price of the MS license ;>
As a side question, my wife and had been WP users since 5.0a (for DOS!), but have recently switched to Office, the standard in our offices. Do you think it's possible to lure people back from Office?
And I guess it doesn't hurt that my wife has an even better job ;)
Netscape is fast approaching irrelevance. 4.6 is buggy, and its JVM is so bad that we were warned by one of providers not to use it for their new service. They reccomened 4.51 or "any 4.x or greater version of IE." It pains me to say it ... but, I bet in a complete thrashing of browsers on Windows platforms, IE 4 would be more stable and more compatible with HTML standards.
I have a pretty strong suspicion that Mozilla will be too little too late.
Opera, on the other hand, looks *much* more promising ... it's just not open source. But sometimes closed source isn't bad.
Just a thought ...