Word, No
Please, don’t send me Microsoft Word attachments.
I think this is great. I run OpenOffice and KOffice (the latter is preferred, since it is smaller and runs faster), and neither do a very good job of opening Microsoft Office documents. There are a few commercial Office alternatives available for Linux: Hancom WorkDesk, TextMaker to name a few. I have tried one of the release candidates for TextMaker (a Word-only alternative) on Linux. It’s faster then OpenOffice, and seems to render Word docs slightly better — but it’s not something I would pay for.
So, anyway — back to the point. Please abandon Word. Or at least, don’t send me Word stuff unless you absolutely have no choice. I just wish OpenOffice would hurry up with development. I want something that will do versioning and track changes and such on Linux — that’s free. And I don’t think KOffice will ever get there, though OpenOffice will eventually — it just needs to get optimised to run faster.
