Loading of Microsoft Applications on Ubuntu

[marc]

Frank McCormick said:

> Michael Haney wrote:
>> Preston, I'm not certain about the Linux version but Skype offers a PBX
>> service for businesses that you might want to look into.  Its
> 
> /snip
> 
>> US.  I don't use it but I know a lot of others who complain about it
>> being IE only.  I use Firefox exclusively on Ubuntu and Firefox and
>> Chrome on Windows.  Usually I'll use Chrome when watching streaming
>> video because of its tiny resource footprint.  I wish Chrome was out
>> for Linux officially, when is that going to happen?  Yes, I'm talking
>> to you Google!!!
>> 
>> 
> 
>    Chrome may be closer than you think! I've been running the
> pre-pre-pre-alpha and it's getting better by the day. Today they added
> "import bookmarks from Firefox" etc...and it works well. No themes yet,
> and 50% of the toolbar doesn't work yet but it is FAST! It they keep it
> up FF will be left in its dust :)

I switched to Chrome on Windows soon after it came out. It's blazingly 
fast. It had some funky JavaScript issues early on - a big deal for me - 
but those have mostly been ironed out. Still need FF for the development 
tools and the awesome Scrapbook, though :-)

-- 
Best,
Marc