Someone has succeeded with running MS Office2000 through Wine

[Steven Pasternak]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
> <fedora-gmane.00002 at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>> Somebody has to say it ...
>>
>> Why are you trying to run a second-rate commercial Windows product on
>> Linux, when there is a much better Free Open Source equivalent called
>> OpenOffice.org?
>
> :-)
>
> Why, you ask. Well, it is precisely by the fact that I find Linux much
> superior to MS Windows that I am trying to have MS Office working on
> Linux. Paradoxical? Not really. At work, we must use MS applications
> and I have to produce some work on MS Office. Then, to minimize the
> number of times that I have to be on MS Windows, when working *at
> home* (a frequent event), I am trying to have MS Office on Linux!
>
> Paul
>
I read and write M$ office files with openoffice.org all the time 
(friends still in the dark with M$). The only thing not supported is 
access files. I don't know about 2000, but wasn't wine 0.9 supposed to 
run office 2003 anyway?
-Steven