Au contraire, there is a specific blog that explains all -
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh - that if you had read, would realize that Microsoft did not just pull a wild hair out of its head.
As for Open Office, it is a horrible suite - I just tried the latest version on Ubuntu and the interface, while familiar, is not nearly as intuitive as Office 2007.
As for Thunderbird, it is a decent mail program, but not sufficient to replace Outlook or even Outlook Express.
As for linux distros in general, I have been going down the list of them, installing and using for about a month each, and have not found a single one that will be a suitable replacement for Windows.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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reading.
After furious head scratching, Open Office fan asked:
| Or you could do as I have done, and save a lot of hassle by switching
| to Open Office, and try Firefox, Thunderbird and next time you need a
| new OS, try Linux Mt small business, which used to be entirely
| MS-based, is now switching, and all becqause as, IT person, I got fed
| up with the recent changes.
|
| Good luck! At least the change is not going to cost you much, and
| will take less time than grappling with the latest MS innovations,
| which no one has explained why they are improvements.
|
| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
|
|| I'll be happy after I leave work in 34 minutes. ;-)
||
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|| JoAnn Paules
|| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|| How to ask a question
||
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||
|| LOL - happy day after Thanksgiving!
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||
|| After furious tummy rubbing, JoAnn Paules asked:
||
||| I can't help but checkle every time I see one of your "After furious
||| head scratching" replies. I can see poor Dave scratching so hard
||| he's bleeding. ;-)
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||| JoAnn Paules
||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
|||
||| ~~~~~
||| How to ask a question
|||
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| ||| Only by using the installation CDs - you must install from CD and
||| not just copy the program files over from the other computer.
|||
|||
|||| I have recently bought another computer with Vista Home Premium. I
|||| have been trying to install my previously purchased copy of Office
|||| on the new computer. Unfortunately I do not have the original CDs
|||| for the program. I have been getting an error message stating that
|||| the visual basic environment was not available. Is MS Office 2003
|||| able to be transferred from one computer to another? Thanks,
