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In article <kevinbDDr3My.H5D@netcom.com>, kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com (Kevin
Brown) wrote:

> >Linux is great: for an educational experience. It is not
> >user-friendly. 
> 
> Linux is as user-friendly as the system administrator decides to make
> it.  In my case, it's user-friendly enough that my fiancee uses it
> without problems.  She has far more problems with DOS+Windows at work
> than she does with Linux at home.

Problems because of user friendliness?  Or problems because of the
instability of DOS+Windows?  What does she do at work?  User friendliness
depends a lot upon what you're doing.  For instance, copy a file in unix
and then do the same thing in Windows.  Which took less steps?  (of
course, now do it on a mac, which took less steps?)

> >But everyone is missing the point of OS wars: apps
> >determine the success of an OS. Right now this is why DOS/WIN is in
> >the lead. Linux versions of Word, Excel, Notes, Photoshop, CorelDraw
> >are unlikely for now.
> 
> It's pretty unlikely that Word and Excel will ever be ported to Linux.
> Why would MS support a platform that is "competing" against their
> beloved Windows 95?

Oh, they might port it if there was enough demand... but if they did how
much do you want to bet that the windows version would *conveniently*
still run faster.

                                         - Joel