MS Office with WINE
gerard patel
nomailthankyoug.patel at wanadoo.fr
Wed Apr 4 01:39:25 CDT 2001
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:37:41 +0200, philippe briere <briere at ensta.fr>
wrote:
>Hi, there
>
>I am a studying possibility of using wine in professional environment.
>I installed codeweavers wine recently with success. But I fear the
>answer is not an evident YES... With notepad, I have not acheived any
>printing yet.
>
>First goal would be running MS Office for win 98, especially Excel
>(another vintage for better emulation if necessary).
>
>What is your opinion ?
Read the README.
>More precisely, what problems are there in MS Office apps emulation ? Is
>there any kind of technical synthesis available on the subject ?
I don't know of any.
>Apart from that, is there any idea of the predictible date for a
>professional usable release ?
No.
In your place I'd investigate also Vmware or (better IMO)
replacing MsOffice by StarOffice.
Gerard
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