The Magic 8 Ball knows everything!

[giza]

Holy crap, this Magic 8 Ball knows everything! I'm gonna ask it about Exchange Server next!

(Thanks to camstone for the original link)

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Just to bat for MS for once

[tulan.livejournal.com]

There is one MS product that I just can't find a good equivalent for open-source wise.

MS Excel. Open source variants I've ran into thus far just fail to compare.

Now, you can run Excel in WINE, I'm just saying that Excel is a damn good spreadsheet program, and simple-minded clones aren't enough to make me change.

...Word, Powerpoint, Access ( Dear God, Access :( ), and Frontpage ( BURN ) aren't that great. Outlook, actually, I find the second best of all Office products, and that is because it integrates so much into one package. However, there are some pretty close open-source Outlook equivalents popping up. I'll give them a chance sometime.

Re: Just to bat for MS for once

[giza.livejournal.com]

I've been using Gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/) for over a year and it's worked out fine for me. But I mostly use it for doing formulas and such in.