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Window Closing on Office 2003

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jul 2005 11:33 UTC

Microsoft is facing an uphill battle to push copies of Office 2003 on customers and its ISV partner ecosystem, ahead of next year's predicted launch of Office 12.

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RE: tex?

by japail on Thu 21st Jul 2005 21:57 UTC in reply to "tex?"

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2005-06-30

TeX is excellent for writing papers, but it's not much of a spreadsheet, a platform for constructing simple database applications, a means of taking notes, a groupware tool, or anything of that sort. Put simply, it's only a replacement for Office if all you happen to do is typeset documents.

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RE[2]: tex?

by Milo_Hoffman on Thu 21st Jul 2005 22:03 in reply to "RE: tex?"

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2005-07-06

Hehe.. Funny you should mention tex/latex, Im doing my math homework in LyX right now in another window. Nothing impresses math professors more than beautiful typeset math formulas...and its sooo easy to do with tex/latex/lyx.

http://www.lyx.org/

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RE[3]: tex?

by japail on Thu 21st Jul 2005 23:06 in reply to "RE[2]: tex?"

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2005-06-30

GNU TeXmacs is also interesting for such work, and can interface with CAS (as can Lyx) like Maxima, Axiom, and Yacas.

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