Scott McNay wrote: > Hi John, > > Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 2:23:36 AM, you wrote: > > JD> I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to > JD> Microsoft’s dominance of personal computer software, by offering > JD> free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. > > It's a customized version of OpenOffice / StarOffice. Supposedly > they did a lot of clean-up to improve it. > > I'm already using Open Office successfully (partly because the old copy of MS office wasn't up to it). We may see a lot more of this before long. The competitor is coming of age. -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 112663246 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 Award winning web site at http://modecideas.com?sig Order my latest e-book at http://modecideas.com/dmaxhits.htm?sig PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.