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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