Someone has succeeded with running MS Office2000 through Wine

[Paul Smith]

On 6/16/06, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lets be honest here.  If you think OpenOffice is better than MS
> Office, then you have not used both of them very much.
>
> I hate Microsoft, but I've used both suites a lot, MS Office is far
> superior to OpenOffice.  The Excel spreadsheet is much better than
> OOcalc (sorting data, performing calculations), Powerpoint is tons and
> tons better than Impress (variety of built-in styles, ease of content
> creation), and Word is better than OOwriter (do equations, customize
> headers, insert images, create paragraph styles, manage page numbers,
> or do just about anything).
>
> The only thing for which OpenOffice is better is creating PDF output,
> which MSOffice won't do, of course.
>
>   Gnumeric spreadsheet is as good as Excel, OOcalc aint.

Please, notice that I did not compare MS Office with its counterparts
in Linux; I only wrote:

"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