[mdlug] IBM plants Linux on the desktop

Michael Corral micorral at comcast.net
Tue Feb 13 13:18:25 EST 2007


Ingles, Raymond a ecrit:
> Well, my wife is tired of OpenOffice and wants to go back to MS Office.
> She uses office stuff a lot more than me and has been doing it for a few
> months now, but she's done with the learning curve.
>
> Any advice?

Clearly you need to upgrade to Wife 2.0. ;)

Is she using OpenOffice at work, or just at home?
If it's at home, then obviously there is no *requirement* to use it,
which makes it easier for her to demand to go back to MS Office.
And she's right; this is just for home use and in her home she should
be able to use whatever she feels the most comfortable with. If that
happens to be MS Office then fine. Nothing wrong with that, it's her
preference.

If this is at work, then that's a different matter. At work you have to
use what you're supposed to use, period. I'm forced to use Windows at
work, which is clearly not my preference. But I value my job and my
livelihood so I use it. I don't whine about it (while I'm at work:),
that's just a waste of time. I just accept it and get on with what I
have to do. But I do push Linux when the situation is appropriate.

Michael



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