<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> There are ways of making the software work but your safest bet would be finding alternatives to the software below. That way you know they will functioning correctly. MS Office - OpenOffice.org Acrobat 7 - Acroread, xview Photoshop CS - The Gimp Illustrator CS2 - Inkscape Frontpage - NvU these programs come close to what you want, may not be 100% but it should work for you On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:57 -0400, Jeff Robertson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. -- Jeff </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>