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To: Neil Booth who wrote (17440)	11/2/2000 6:37:24 PM
From: dls6398	Respond to of 275872

qq{ If Excel is busy doing a long calculation, tough, you cannot minimize it, move it, or do anything to get the damn thing out of the way. What kind of design is that? } That's poor application design, not necessarily bad OS design. In any case, are you sure this is still the case? I could swear I've moved and resized MS-Office apps while they were working before. Dave

To: Neil Booth who wrote (17440)	11/2/2000 7:58:35 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

Neil, I would like Linux to be at the stage windows is at now. Where a little learning by a secretary would allow ger to do most of her work for months with no problems. I have clients with Win98SE and they rarely have crashes, and when they do a restart puts them back to work. Now I have a sea of apps and I get an occasional freeze up. Blue screen is rarely seen now. If Linux was there it would shoulder windows out of a huge portion of it's business. Now various unix plavors havd been made to work this wayy with an iron clad closed system that permits no additions to the programs. Many banks etc run on them. But I feel Linux is not yet ready for prime time on the office/home desktop.