Duck, Microsoft: Firefox Is Coming To Retail Stores (Linux offering OpenOffice & Firefox together)

TechWeb ^ | November 22, 2004 | TechWeb.com

[Eagle9]

Linux operating-system producer Linspire Inc. has found another way to challenge Microsoft: it's offering its OpenOffice.org product suite and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser in a single package in retail channels.

Linspire, formerly called Lindows, positions its OOoFf package to directly compete with Microsoft Office. The OpenOffice.org product enables users to create spreadsheets, presentations, and documents using files in popular formats, including .doc, .xls and .ppt. The Linspire product also enables users to utilize the PDF format.

"Our goal with OOoFf is to help get OpenOffice.org and Firefox into every possible distribution channel," said Linspire CEO Michael Robertson in a statement Monday. "As users grow comfortable with these high-quality open-source products, it makes the migration to desktop Linux a much more practical transition."

The combo OOoFf consists of an installation CD-ROM, documentation materials, and Flash tutorials. The software is compatible with Windows 98 and higher and Mac OS X 10.2 and higher.

Firefox has been downloaded by more than 10 million users, and the browser has taken some market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Linspire Linux-based operating system has been designed for desktop and laptop computers, and the firm said the new Firefox- OOoFf package should help spur the growth of its Linux operating system.

[GeronL]

Now that will be interesting

[goldstategop]

I think this is a Windows combo package - users get the Open Office Suite and Firefox browser for LESS than the cost of a Microsoft Office Suite!

[GeronL]

Both of those work with Windows right???

hhhmmmmm...

[goldstategop]

Yep - they are Windows compatible versions. Once users try them, they'll consider switching to Linux and never look back. At least that's the hope of the folks at Linspire.

[GeronL]

A lot of people cannot afford Microsoft Office, Open Office and Firefox could really put some pain on ol' MSFT

[Eagle9]

Linspire, formerly called Lindows, positions its OOoFf package to directly compete with Microsoft Office.
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I think this is a Windows combo package ...

Yeah, I think you're probably right -- or very close.

[ideablitz]

no, this isn't interesting.

4 years after va linux going to what. $200 a share... nothing happended. No body in the desktop world really uses linux. Corel Linux is gone. Last time i checked Red Hat Linux Pro is $100.

there is no RAD tools in Linux. Kylix hasn't been pursuasive and frankly no body really develops under it. firefox is okay but the Browser was is over. The paradigm over browser has been shifted to distributed networking applications.

There isn't really that much you can do with the browser right now. Having a tabs, themes, and few others really ins't evolution. they are just gold plating and illusion of having done something that's not signiicant.

Until, Next Windows OS, we all just have to wait. Even then, there really wouldn't be any "new" technology that will enhance browser greatly.

by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups.

Only with Internet Explorer, you can blocked all popups.

[goldstategop]

You CAN download them for free but Open Office may be too big for installation for dial-up users. For that market share, they can run it from a CD and the next best thing is they can install them on as many machines as they want with NO license restrictions. Its all open-source software.

[goldstategop]

Wrong. You can get Mephis Linux for $25 and the rest of the software you can download for free from Debian repositories all over the web. Today Linux is better than Windows and you don't have to worry about spyware, worms, and viruses. And best of all, its super-stable. No more "blue screen of death."

[Nick Danger]

by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups.

Don't lie to people. I use Firefox. Drudge is my home page. Every time I go there, it says "Firefox has blocked a popup." And I don't get any popups.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It is a Linux package that is set up to dual boot with windows and can share data with windows I think.....

But it does not run under windows so there is no way you can call it a Windows package....

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[Eagle9]

Tech ping.

[monkapotamus]

by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups.

It's blocking them for me at drudgereport.com.

[ideablitz]

you can't cause plain with nothing to something.
OpenOffice + Firefox = nothing.
people who doesn't pay for the software will not pay for the software, period. they are still using Office 97 and Windows 98. But that's fine because that's all they need.
but OpenOffice + Firefox ?= Office XP + IE? not even close. Linux packages do not do what Office XP+IE can do. Not even close. IT world doesn't evolve around typing some memos and browser internet on google. Else, everybody be using Microsoft Works.

You can do so much with Office XP+IE, OpenOffice+Firefox is a joke. Office OCX/OLE automation with IE, SharePoint,InfoPath, ect... GreatPlains, ect.. I can go on and on.

Most today's browser applications are built around OCX/IE technologies, just simply switching to Firefox is irresponsible and downright idiotic. VS.NET application does not display properly in firefox, no grid layout.

Firefox is either behind on CSS or downright can't do the CSS that's implemented by Microsoft. When Microsoft had problem with WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics, Microsoft made sure that all Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics users can do everything they did in WordPerfect in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. What does firefox do? They do the opposite.

Duck, Microsoft: Mozzila is coming to Retail Store (Linux Offering OpenOffice & Mozilla together) 2001?

[ideablitz]

i just went there with the firefox 1.0. I just got the pop up.

[backhoe]

Thanks, I'll pass this info on.

[Eagle9]

Hmmmm, I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks!

[monkapotamus]

people who doesn't pay for the software will not pay for the software, period. they are still using Office 97 and Windows 98. But that's fine because that's all they need.

All your Bill Gates are belong to us.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Red Hat Linux Pro is $100.

Fedora ( Redhat is a free download!)