Microsoft Office Coming To Linux?

OSDL expects low cost Linux Office version to keep Open Office at bay. 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 Francicso.

“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 organization employs 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 move to preempt the further rise of the open source Open Office productivity suite, Cohen argued.

“They’ll go fight the total cost of ownership with a very inexpensive office solution. I don’t think that they will open source Office , but they will make it available to run on Linux desktops.”

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Some tips on behaving in Office

Got this one as email forward. Looks good to me….Any comments…

Never Walk without Document in your hand.

• People with documents in their hands look like hardworking employees heading for important meetings.
• People with nothing in their hands look like they’re heading for the canteen.
• People with a newspaper in their hand look like they’re heading for the toilet.
• Above all, make sure you carry loads of stuff home with you at night, thus generating the false impression that you work longer hours than you do.

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