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actually thats my webbrowser opera. My wm is evilwm, definitely not vistaish...
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well it looks live vista
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We just had Office 2007 installed at our college, personally i think it is rubbish!
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I here Open Office is a good set of programmes that runs well on Linux
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my opera browser has a vista skin.
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> We just had Office 2007 installed at our college, personally i think it is rubbish!
Too many sub-menus hidden away behind everything. Something i have to get used to

i heard that it's actually easier to use, i've only used it for a little bit and i think it's pretty cool. it's a new GUI, so it feels fresh.
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Microsoft office is the only microsoft product that I actually like, much superior to open office... Regardless I hate word processors.... latex is better ;-) (and it looks better)
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Yeah the only MS products I like are Media Player, Visual Studio and Office
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i don't like media player, but love visual studio office, and their server products.
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I like media player 11.Prefer it to Itunes. I like Amarok in linux but its a pain in the ass to have to use a seperate app for riping/burning
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I like mplayer for linux.
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