the MIcrosoft office and other programs mentioned should really be that t= here is no feasible means of converting from the M$ format to OS format (= whichever program it may be). and/or there is not a real good emulator Could you possibly explain what you mean when you say that there is a "la= ck of multimedia"? My sound and video work (and your too so I suspect).=20 The too many distributions is very correct. It is one of the reasons my t= eacher does not like *nix. But in the same regards, if we didn't have man= y dists competeing against each other we wouldn't have had such rapid dev= elopment of *nix. :-)Mike(-: ----- Original Message ----- Ted Gould wrote: > This week: >=20 > Feature holding back Linux adoption >=20 > - USB device detection > - No Microsoft Office > - No Outlook/Notes > - Lack of multimedia > - Too many distributions > - No one to blame > - No clue > - Other (write below) >=20 > http://plug.phoenix.az.us/ This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net