steve_b Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Just interested to see if anyone is using the free spreadsheet and docs tools from Google on Windows platform. Seems okay as has mail, calender and instant messenger as well and a couple of gig storage. I use MS Office for work, but for wife/partner is it any good. Anyone even using it for business use instead of Office. PS I know it is on-line only but everytime she uses the laptop she is on-line anyway. http://www.google.com/google-d-s/hpp/hpp_en_GB.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I only work off Macs, so dont think it works, not fair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzzz... Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Have you heard of Open Office? Completely Free Download from www.openoffice.org, 90 MB download and it is very similar to MS. Office , you get an oppenoffice version of Excel, Word, Access, Paint, Powerpoint it saves files in MS formats, and all sorts of other formats, including PDF... very good very simple and very very FREEEEEEE I got it installed in out living room laptop, we use this to surf internet and I did not want to pay 100 quid + for MS office for VISTA.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev946 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Have you heard of Open Office? Completely Free Download from www.openoffice.org, 90 MB download and it is very similar to MS. Office , you get an oppenoffice version of Excel, Word, Access, Paint, Powerpoint it saves files in MS formats, and all sorts of other formats, including PDF... very good very simple and very very FREEEEEEE I got it installed in out living room laptop, we use this to surf internet and I did not want to pay 100 quid + for MS office for VISTA.... Does this work on a Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_350z Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Once VMware Fusion is out you can run anything on a Mac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev946 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Once VMware Fusion is out you can run anything on a Mac... Whens this Steve? A friend of mine has "Parallel" on a Mac with Vista running. He said this is shareware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 Steve puts his marketing hat on again....... Will Fusion run on non-intel mac as I have mini mac and would be good if can run windows and/or osX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 If you want to run windows on a mac the fastest solution is to install bootcamp, so you can dual boot in either macos X or Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 ir, Surely that is only for intel macs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 indeed. And i guess if they make their app( that vmware fusion thing ) run on your mac mini, your windows will be slow as hell, if it has to be emulated on a PowerPc architecture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzzz... Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 you can get open office for MAC software, yes!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I got a Macpower Book pro, it says it has duel processor, so does this mean it should automatically run windows programs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 To add to the mac/Ms debate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZetvtck ... ed&search= and to even it up he is "sl114" explaining about mac's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di31XIOF ... ed&search= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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