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Windows isn't going anywhere, if for no other reason than because Microsoft Excel is basically electronic paper to the business world -- and there is simply no adequate substitute for it. (No, neither OpenOffice Calc nor any of the Web-based offerings -- including Microsoft's own -- count.)

Coping with Windows is a fact of life. Get used to it.



You've decided to make it part of your life.

Plenty of us have gotten rid of that virus years ago; yes even at work.


>Coping with Windows is a fact of life. Get used to it.

echoes from 1998.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

Your use of the word 'coping' is telling.

p.s. I can't remember the last time I touched MS software outside of a VM.


There's MS Excel (and office) for Mac and Wine supports Office 2013. The situation is getting better every year.


And MS Office for Android.




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