Microsoft Office for Linux 'inevitable'
Microsoft within the "next couple of years" will release a version of its Office productivity to run on Linux, Stuart Cohen, chief executive for the Open Source Development Labs, predicted in an interview with vnunet.com at the Linuxworld conference in San Francisco.
"They did it once with Apple, they will do it again with Linux," Cohen said The OSDL consortium aims to advance Linux and open source. The organizationemploys Linux founder Linus Torvalds and is funded by IT vendors including IBM,HP and Intel.
The software developer will be compelled to create a Linux version in a moveto preempt the further rise of the open source Open Office productivity suite,Cohen argued.
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Hopefully it won't cost $500
Hopefully it won't cost $500. Another factor is how much OpenOffice is going to evolve in the next couple of years. Currently, they are only fixing bugs in 2.0.x
Never
MS does not ignore Linux know, tries kill it everywhere it can, FUD all the the day and night, lawyers and etc. But I don't think they will make something like that, like making Office for linux. But the copy protections in linux are for standard windows crackers harder to crack this good be the good site. The other side when/if MS gets his suite to Linux OO will be much more evolved, time in opensource has the tendecy to run faster compared the vaultlike soft programmnig.
Hopefully it *WILL* cost $500!
Hopefully it *WILL* cost $500, so that NOBODY would buy it!!!
How the heck is that, to *buy* Microsoft Office under a Linux distro which is either free, or $50...$80?!