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I think there will be a light-weight word processor and spreadsheet.
I think Abiword was selected for the word processor, but, every nation will be buying millions of these and will be able to select software that they want. But, OpenOffice would be too bloated to run on the OLPC computers.
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Teach your children to Excel.  Anton Philidor | 02/28/07
I agree  Michael Kelly | 02/28/07
Right, but they don't need to learn MS Excel or MS Word. They can learn to  DonnieBoy | 02/28/07
Use what they choose  Boot_Agnostic | 02/28/07
In this case, MS Office was not even an option. It is way too bloated to  DonnieBoy | 03/01/07
More like he states it wrong  IT_User | 02/28/07
I think there will be a light-weight word processor and spreadsheet.  DonnieBoy | 03/01/07
Negropronte has it right. We need the cheapest computers possible, so that  DonnieBoy | 02/28/07
Two visions...  Omch'Ar | 02/28/07
These projects are already a great success. They have forced manufacturers  DonnieBoy | 03/01/07
NEC's new venture of Home Thin Client Computing  technocp@... | 03/07/07

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