[P1] OT: Keep Internet Explorer or MS products?

[Robert Newman]

Greetings:

Or you could buy Think Free Office, for 50 bucks which writes .doc 
files as well as Excel and Powerpoint.  I send them to people who use 
only Windows, and they have no problem opening them in Word.  They 
think that I have finally come around once again to Microsoft!

Robert Newman

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 08:17 AM, good-dog at northshore.net wrote:

>
> On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Charles Martin wrote:
>>
>> I really like MarinerWrite. It's a good, clean, elegant wp. Nothing 
>> more, nothing less. You can check it out via Marinersoft.com. Still 
>> it was useful to have Word around for when I got .doc files from 
>> others.
>
> It appears that for what most people do for writing, they can do it 
> without Word and be compatible with the "Forced Standard" of 
> Microsoft, and with OS X's ability to be compatible, this becomes less 
> an issue.