Running MS Office (Word) on Edubuntu?

[Ville Pöntinen]

Office 2010 installs and runs nicely if you use play_on_linux.

On linux desktop anyway but thats what i would try on ltsp.
12.6.2013 21.04 "Frank Van Damme" <frank.vandamme at gmail.com> kirjoitti:

> 2013/6/11 Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I've been asked to figure out how to have staff access MS Word using
> > our network.  OpenOffice / Libre Office apparently isn't good enough
> > (compatibility issues when moving files between one location that's
> > Word and one that's Libre Office).
> >
> > Is this possible? I know there's software like Wine and Crossover -
> > are those the recommended ways to do this?  Or remote desktop to a
> > Windows server? If that is the case, will the staff still be able to
> > access their LTSP home files?
> >
> > I appreciate your feedback!
>
> No single answer is going to be the best to this question, but my
> advice would be: try Wine and test it. The "normal" wine versions are
> installable by ubuntu packages so that's practical; with some luck you
> may run the installer out of the box. Support is not perfect but it
> seems to work:
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=11
>
> If you're going to try any proprietary derivative of Wine, Crossover
> or bordeaux are probably the best bet in your situation.
> http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications
>
> I personally would only start looking at remote application solutions
> if none of the above suits your needs; for example a Citrix server to
> run just the Office applications, which will be a lot less practical
> to your end user because the integration with their desktop will be
> bad (things like drag and drop).
>
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