Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 22:20, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>>Word installs a ton of stuff locally and starts it at boot
>>>even if you think you are loading it from a network drive.
>>
>>But it's not installed on that machine. It's on a server running
>>NT. All that exists on the W95 machine is a "shortcut" on the
>>desktop. I've heard the disc on the server crank up when I click
>>on that link.
> 
> 
> I didn't think you could run Office programs without
> installing them on a machine.  You can do a network install
> or tell it to install (some of it) on a network drive but
> I thought you had to go through the motions locally and
> give it the serial number.  What version of word is
> this?

I believe it's part of Office 97 or 98. I didn't set it up, and
I don't have access to that machine at the moment. Sorry not to
be able to be more specific.

Mike
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