Re: What office suite is compatible with Windows ME ?

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"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote...
>Unfortunately, many open source programs (excluding star office and
>oo.o) are poor quality with no documentation.
....

In re documentation, based on a LOT of the original questions asked in the
Excel newsgroups, the same could be said for Excel.

With regard to quality, there are many thousands of open source software
packages commonly packaged with desktop Linux distros. A few hundred of them
may be of marginal quality. Most of the others are no worse than most
Microsoft products, and some are better.

There's actually a large amount of commercial software available for
Linux/BSD/Mac OS X. Most of it originated under Unix. These include
Mathematica, MatLAb, Maple, S-Plus, just to name the math/stats software
with which I'm most familiar.

As for the free stuff, there's more documentation available for the Linux
and BSD kernels than for Windows. Ditto both XFree86 and X.Org compared to
Windows GDI. Same for the major desktop environments, KDE, Gnome,
Windowmaker and Xfce. And should we compare the skimpy online help for
CMD.EXE compared to the hundreds of pages of documetation for *each* of the
shells that commonly come with these other OSs?

With regard to the software I use most, R, nedit, Mozilla and TeX, there are
thousands of pages for each except nedit, which is a simple enough text
editor it doesn't need more than a hundred pages or so. Further, very few
packages are included in most distros unless they come with at least a
man[ual] page.

Got any specific examples, or do you get paid to spout Microsoft propaganda?
[Freebie: if you mean abs sucks, I agree completely, but it does come with
docs.]


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