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2009/3/27 Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > This sums up the stupidity of the article for me: > "I'm training to be a teacher and am on a tight budget at the moment, > so free software should be really attractive to me, but I'm just too > heavily reliant on Microsoft Office and Windows to consider switching > operating systems. I use Word and PowerPoint on a regular basis" > > I'm on a tight budget at the moment so I bought MS Office. What a > prat! Sorry but I meet this to often to realise that with this article > and many others there is no intention to move. I offer folks a copy of > Open Office which works as well as or even better that MS Office and > certainly quicker than the current version.... and of course it is > free - tight budget!!! I've been on tight budgets! I'm not sure what exactly he could require from MS Office as a trainee teacher. It's not like he's going to have a load of custom macros and vb that he wrote himself. I'm guessing it's a case of 'Office was hard to learn, I dont want to go through that again'. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html