MS office live :(

PB0711 · 05-16-2008, 02:52 PM

Well you have to hand it to microsoft, they must be getting scared of linux or they don't know that we exist. Either way I was slightly bummed out when I went to the MS office live site and saw that my firefox 2.0 was an unsupported browser. I needed either IE or firefox 2.0 on a windows machine or MAC.
http://home.officelive.com/Misc/Comp...pportedBrowser

forrestt · 05-16-2008, 03:04 PM

They definitely know we exist. They also know that the only thing that is keeping most businesses on Windows are their Office apps. If they can work with Linux, they won't sell as many Vistas. They are running out of features that could possibly be put into a word processor or a spreadsheet app. And the OSS community is quickly filling the gap. At some point, the only thing they will have that an OSS solution doesn't is guaranteed ability to open old files with 100% accuracy. They know this, and they are trying to hold onto that for as long as they can.

My 2 pennies,

Forrest

Tinkster · 05-16-2008, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by forrestt

guaranteed ability to open old files with 100% accuracy. They know this, and they are trying to hold onto that for as long as they can.

My 2 pennies,

Forrest

*cough*

So you weren't around when Word 5 came out, and then when
they introduced Winword?

Cheers,
Tink

forrestt · 05-16-2008, 04:03 PM

That must have been the year I spent in Egypt while I was in the Army.

Forrest

p.s. Confirmed with wikipedia. It was 1994, so I was otherwise occupied with MFO duties.

PB0711 · 05-20-2008, 01:22 PM

they replied to my question which I posted about not being able to use live office and i got

Quote:

First, I would like to check your Firefox version, I checked from following page and Office Live supports firefox 2.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...hancerspr.mspx

In addition, could you please capture a screenshot of the error we received? I will perform further research for you.

Please also let me know why you need to use Office Live service, do you have a Office Live account now?

A linux persone wants to use office. Why, you need permission to use OUR software. lol

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-20-2008, 01:50 PM

Works fine here, using FF 2.0 and Linux. If it doesn't work for you try the User Agent Switcher plugin for FF. It bypasses everything I've seen. One major case was:
http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/

I couldn't login cuz it said it only supported Window$ or Mac. Changed my user agent and it worked perfectly. I don't see any reason why they would do this. Are they affiliated with M$ ?

PB0711 · 05-21-2008, 05:23 PM

I tried the switcher thing. It's pretty cool. I got through the first page but then I couldn't render the page propertly

oh well I like google's doc anyway

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-22-2008, 04:18 AM

If FF can't render things properly try konqueror instead, it usually renders things much better than any other browser.