[luau] Throw Away Microsoft Word

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Again, as I mentioned earlier, Microsoft Office achieved its ubiquity 
exactly because .doc files have been "ubiquitously" exchanged among 
computer users as though the .doc format were a "cyber currency".

I used to (and still do) receive .doc files from my corporate clients, 
my co- and opposing counsels, my book editors, et cetera, et cetera. 
 You name it, and the list goes on and on.

Because a .doc file can retain its "exact" formatting only if you open 
it with Microsoft Word (StarOffiice does an incredible job, but, believe 
me, some formatting is still lost), we have had to purchase and install 
MSO in each and every one of our gd'd machines, only so that we can 
ensure the .doc files can be opened exactly as they were written.  (We 
are still using WordPerfect, Word, as expensive as it is, has no use for 
us, except for openning .doc files.)

We have always heard that Linux will never become a desktop OS because 
Microsoft will not port MSO to Linux.

Perhaps, with the recently revealed info about Microsoft Word, this 
(that Microsoft will not port MSO to Linux) should be regarded as a 
blessing!