NYT – Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Saturday, 6th February 2010 by Musaul Karim
The New York Times has an account from a former Microsoft Vice President, Dick Brass, on why the company is no longer an innovator.
It’s an interesting read.
Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Desktop Applications for GNU/Linux – Part 3: Office/Productivity
Sunday, 6th July 2008 by Musaul Karim
There are plenty of office suites as well as a whole host of other productivity software freely available for GNU/Linux. Most of these provide the average user with all the functionality they need from a word processor, desktop database or spread sheet application. Some will even open documents created in Microsoft Word or Excel with varying degrees of success. There will be some issues when it comes to Keep reading »
Installing the UK English OpenOffice in Arch Linux
Saturday, 1st March 2008 by Musaul Karim
You’ll need to run the following as root to install OpenOffice.org with the en_UK dictionary etc:
pacman -Sy openoffice-base
pacman -S openoffice-uk
pacman -S openoffice-spell-uk
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