[kwlug-disc] "Microsoft's SQL Server Next for Linux, Windows"

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'm going to politely disagree there...  I am forced to use MS Office at
work, of course, and I've used MSO since its earliest days.  I actually got
certified in it back in the mid 90's.  But these days I am an avid fan of
LibreOffice.  Yes, it's not quite as robust of MS Office in many ways, but
trust me, MSO has a dark side that makes me scream out loud some days.
Especially the newer versions.  There are a number of things that I _used_
to be able to do in Outlook that MS decided I didn't need to do anymore, so
I switched to Thunderbird and never looked back (at least at home on my own
computers).  Excel and Word, while they're decent programs, just don't
understand anything but their own proprietary formats.  LO, on the other
hand, plays well with just about anything.

I don't blame anyone for liking MS Office, but I encourage people to try
out LibreOffice.  Once you get used to the differences, you'll love it more
and more each day.


On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 at 20:04 Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:

> > On Dec 2, 2016, at 6:16 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> > Before long, it will be "MS-Office for Linux".  And, that will kill
> > everything in its path.
>
> I actually would look forward to Office for Linux, so long as it came with
> Access and Visio. I’ve been waiting for a decent office suite for Linux
> since the mid-90s and have tried quite a few of them. I dislike MS Office
> but it really is the best of the bunch, by a long shot.
>
> -A.
>
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