Re: [SARES] free microsoft office file viewers

The major advantage to OpenOffice is that you can read and modify MS
Office format files. 
Only really fancy stuff is incompatible between tools .... basics work
well.

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 -0700, Andreas Ott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in light of roster and data now being published as Excel spreadsheets and
> as discussed over lunch today, Microsoft offers you to download a free
> viewer software to open Office software attachments for those of you
> who do not want to buy a license for the Office applications itself. You
> may download and install those viewers from...
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=viewer&displaylang=en
> 
> Note: some of those viewers are large files to download and consume large
> amounts of diskspace to install; and then also considerable amounts of
> CPU and memory to run. You might want to pass on this opportunity if
> you are still running Win98SE on a Pentium-133 computer with 32MB of RAM.
> 
> The Micro$oft-free alternative is of course to install the OpenOffice
> package, a full suite of office productivity software that opens almost
> all of the Microsoft file formats. OpenOffice is open source software and
> available at no cost at all. You have been warned: OpenOffice is even
> larger to download (50...100 MB) and will also need a somewhat powerful 
> PC with adequate memory to run on.
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/
> 
> Enjoy, andreas  K6OTT
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