Running MS Office (Word) on Edubuntu?

[Nick Rome]

Dear Joseph,

I am not sure how this can help but I want to clarify that if you install
Office on a Windows Server and then use remote desktop you will need to
take into consideration Microsoft new licensing that now requires not only
Office to be licensed but also the Remote Desktop connection.

Nicola


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Ville,
>
> That 'play_on_Linux' application looks perfect.  Were you able to
> open/close your /home folder files easier?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has experience with it in an LTSP environment?
>  Will it play nicely with multi-users?
>
> Thank you
> Joseph
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ville Pöntinen <pontvil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Office 2010 installs and runs nicely if you use play_on_linux.
> >
> > On linux desktop anyway but thats what i would try on ltsp.
> >
> > 12.6.2013 21.04 "Frank Van Damme" <frank.vandamme at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
> >>
> >> 2013/6/11 Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>:
> >> >
> >> > I've been asked to figure out how to have staff access MS Word using
> >> > our network.  OpenOffice / Libre Office apparently isn't good enough
> >> > (compatibility issues when moving files between one location that's
> >> > Word and one that's Libre Office).
> >> >
> >> > Is this possible? I know there's software like Wine and Crossover -
> >> > are those the recommended ways to do this?  Or remote desktop to a
> >> > Windows server? If that is the case, will the staff still be able to
> >> > access their LTSP home files?
> >> >
> >> > I appreciate your feedback!
> >>
> >> No single answer is going to be the best to this question, but my
> >> advice would be: try Wine and test it. The "normal" wine versions are
> >> installable by ubuntu packages so that's practical; with some luck you
> >> may run the installer out of the box. Support is not perfect but it
> >> seems to work:
> >> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11
> >>
> >> If you're going to try any proprietary derivative of Wine, Crossover
> >> or bordeaux are probably the best bet in your situation.
> >> http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications
> >>
> >> I personally would only start looking at remote application solutions
> >> if none of the above suits your needs; for example a Citrix server to
> >> run just the Office applications, which will be a lot less practical
> >> to your end user because the integration with their desktop will be
> >> bad (things like drag and drop).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Frank Van Damme
> >> "My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user-
> >> friendly
> >> than Windows Vista. I don’t like that.”
> >>     -- Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
> >>
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