MS Office with WINE

philippe briere briere at ensta.fr
Fri Apr 6 06:27:48 CDT 2001


gerard patel a écrit :

> 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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Thank you.
That was my conviction yet.
What does IMO means ?

Phil





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