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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (1277)	3/9/1999 2:01:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 2617

I'm not sure that assimilating Microsoft end users into Linux is even a valid concept. The "how else" question is better answered in one of two ways. The first being "through the browser", noting GraphON etc. Another better answer is Samba on the network. If you have a user running Word/Excel most of the time, what's the point of not running it natively if the machine can be integrated into the Unix network. If it's a part time use, then either a native Unix ap reading and writing the file format, or browser ap access would seem to be the ascended solution. I worry that the only purpose Windows User Friendly desktop Linux serves is to paint M$ as having competition, at the expense of dumbing down Linux and advancing the validity of Microsoft's obscured end user OS. -JCJ