From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 12:19:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034F716A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39FFD43FD7 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003091419191801200cdndge>; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:19:18 +0000 Message-ID: <3F64BF2E.3060704@mac.com> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:19:10 -0700 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030731 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: e-o-n@earthlink.net References: <3F64B7EA.4040708@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3F64B7EA.4040708@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Office 2000 Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:19:21 -0000 Martin Rubenstein wrote: > My question for you is simply; Will FreeBSD support windows Office 2000 > Pro? My wife _must_ use MS Office for work at home in order to be > compatible with her work in the office. Powerpoint, Word, Access, Excel > & Outlook. The question might be better phrased as "will MSFT support FreeBSD" and I think we know the answer. Why not buy a bargain-basement commodity PC for Office and network it through the freebsd system (some protection from the worms is always good)? -- Paul Beard whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Serenity through viciousness.