Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Thin Clients, Linux, and BeOS

Author:Adam Trachtenberg
Posted:12/11/1998; 9:18:35 AM
Topic:Thin Clients, Linux, and BeOS
Msg #:1110 (In response to 1101)
Prev/Next:1109 / 1111

The real reason we don't install Linux on our client machines? You can't read documents from the most recent version of Microsoft Word. What's the point of being networked if you can't trade files with the outside world? If Microsoft follows through with their claims and makes XML their universal file format for Office 2000, then maybe we won't have this problem.

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