Comments on Eee Site: What you get with the Windows XP Eee PC

I got the mouse with my 8G Xandros unit that I pur...

2008-04-08T02:04:52.251-04:00

I got the mouse with my 8G Xandros unit that I purchased last week.

If you want Office, that's fine. But why settle fo...

2008-04-07T17:28:35.318-04:00

If you want Office, that's fine. But why settle for MS Works, which is barely even Office Lite?

I've been using OpenOffice.org and AbiWord on Windows for years with no complaints. But I've never had anything but trouble with MS Works. It's fine if all you're doing is creating documents for your own use. But if you want to share your documents with someone else, good luck.

if you wanted open office, wouldn't you just stick...

2008-04-07T17:19:39.064-04:00

if you wanted open office, wouldn't you just stick with linux? presumably, if you want windows, it's so you can run microsoft office itself. there are a lot of specialized add-ons that only work with the "real" thing, like endnote.