[TriLUG] Crossover Office runs Office2K very well.

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Ahh. I miss OS/2. Still have my OS/2 Warp 4 box and all. Can't get support
for my new machine. <sigh>

-----Original Message-----
From: H Brett Bolen [mailto:wingedlizard at nc.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:49 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Crossover Office runs Office2K very well.


We used to joke that after microsoft released it's first
new version ( say Version X.Y.0), the first patch ( X.Y.1) would
cause it to not work with OS/2, and the second patch ( X.Y.2)
would start to fix their bugs.

b\375

Janyne Kizer wrote:
> Actually, this is a very good point.  It reminds me a lot of the OS/2
> "wars."  Everytime M$ came out with a new product it broke Win-OS/2 and
> M$ would say -- oops!  We didn't realize that doesn't work anymore.  So
> sorry.  Oh well, we never supported that anyway.
> 
> karl thiele wrote:
> 
>>They are working on Office XP, which I imagine will be the last Office
>>product that will be capable of being handled by wine. Just a hunch but
>>M$ is not going to like even this level of functionality on a non-M$ OS.
> 
> 



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