[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Peter Childs]

On 30/06/07, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:28:16 +0100 Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk>
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> > Christopher Hunter writes:
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> > >> 2. Presentation Software. (nothing competes with Powerpoint
> > >> unfortunately)
> > >
> > >The "flakiness" factor in Powerpoint makes it mostly unusable in
> > >reality.
> >
> > Wow. It's amazing how distorted a view of the world you can have
> > when you're cloistered in a small community. Powerpoint may have
> > its faults, but to claim its unusable it just laughable, given
> > the millions around the world that use it on a daily basis.
> >
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> Just as it's a bit strange to complain that Impress doesn't compete
> with it. Unless you're running Windows 98SE. Impress doesn't work
> properly on W98SE. But we're supposed to be talking about Impress under
> Linux here.
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> All the time, I take (non-flaky) PowerPoint presentations on USB sticks
> and display them using (non-flaky) Impress,




Hmm Have not really used Impress but I will take a better look at it. It
suffers from the bloat that is OO though and it does not have dual screen
control (even under windows (like power point)

Peter Childs
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