Office.macX is out. Linux compatible?

[DeeTees]

The latest version of Microsoft Office for the Max X operating system is out.

Since the system is basically a Unix kernel with mac shell, does this mean that Microsoft now has code that could be released for Linux operating systems?

 

[m0ti]

well, I expect that it'll run on BSD, though I'm not sure how the front end GUI was implemented in OS X, is it just standard X or is it hidden at the kernel level, NT style?

I don't think that it'll run on Linux, though probably with some hard work, an illegal port could be made (I don't think anybody's gonna do that. Especially, with Open Office out there.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Quartz (the Mac OS X gui) is not the X Window system. Linuxppc would not be able to cope with the gui elements.

 

[DeeTees]

The question is not will Office.macX run under Linux, the question is does microsoft now have office code that could be compiled to Linux without any extensive work.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< The question is not will Office.macX run under Linux, the question is does microsoft now have office code that could be compiled to Linux without any extensive work. >>



What do you consider extensive? Rewriting a gui? If you consider rewriting the gui side of things extensive then the answer is no. Quartz is not X based. Linux has no Quartz compatibility at all. Im not going to go into making sure the Office v.X code will even compile on x86 instead of PPC issues.

 

[FOBSIDE]

MS is a lot closer to a point where they could possible put out an Office release for a *nix platform but it's never going to happen. It's still not that easy to just convert everything over. I have no idea why MS would do such a thing anyway. Office is one of the only things keeping a lot of people from switching over to Linux. Even though there are other office suites to be used, I think they aren't much compared to Office.