Microsoft Office for Linux planned in a try to counteract rise of Open Office

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Microsoft Office for Linux planned in a try to counteract rise of Open Office

08-19-2006, 10:17 AM,

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Microsoft Office for Linux planned in a try to counteract rise of Open Office

Quote:To pre-empt the further rise of Sun Microsystems' open source OpenOffice productivity suite, Microsoft will be compelled to release a Linux-friendly offering of its own. "I do not think that they will open source Office, but they will make it available to run on Linux desktops," said Stuart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Lab...

Cohen claimed that Microsoft is starting to soften its stance against open source. "They are trying to cooperate," said Cohen. "They have now acknowledged that Linux is here to stay."...

full article: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/52497.html

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