From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 07:46:16 MDT
It appears as if Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu> wrote:
|
|Microsoft offers free software to let you view .ppt files on PCs
|and Macs (A copy of the PC version is at:
|http://hanson.gmu.edu/ppt/PPView97.exe)
Microsoft offers free software to view on PCs *with MS-WINDOWS*.
|So I suppose the complaint is that Microsoft hasn't offered enough
|versions of this software for enough other platforms?
I have not seen anything worthwhile for Linuces from Microsoft.
There exists a product which simulates the PC hardware in software
so one can install the MS-WINDOWS cruft on the virtual hardware.
And then when the MS-WINDOWS crashes or fails in some funny way
one can simply recycle the installation, maybe even automagically.
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