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[mike]

Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jeff Robertson <jrob79 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jrob79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am considering buying a new Dell laptop in a couple months.  I
>     am fed up with Windows and especially the crap they call "Vista". 
>     Dell now offers new laptops with Ubuntu installed as the OS.  I
>     would love to learn and use Ubuntu but I am worried some of my
>     software won't work.  I have MS Office, Acrobat 7, PhotoshopCS
>     IllustratotCS2 and Frontpage.
>
>
> I think it's great that you have decided to go for a Ubuntu machine.
> All the softwars you mentuioned above have a open source counterpart 
> which usually works just as well.
> To add to the above, a program called Wine is known to run 
> MSOffice2000 and PSCS2 (in fact, I think even PS CS3) under Linux. As 
> for Acrobat, if you are talking about the reader, I'm currently using 
> Acrobat Reader 8 on Ubuntu.
> And finally, there are lots of good WYSIWYG Web Editors and IDEs in 
> Linux. I think FrontPage's direct substitute can be Kompozer.
>
> So, don't fret, feel free to enter Ubuntu's world.
>
> Thanks,
> Raseel
> http://raseel.in
>
i would add that if you need to save in MS doc format open office will 
do that and so far i have lost no data in convertion in fact open office 
is a lot easier to work with than MS office
mike