Mulling Microsoft Office For Linux

Microsoft always says nay.

A good source, a former Microsoft person who is still tight with the company, insists anew that there is, in fact, such a project.

Current insiders deny knowledge of any such thing, although one source in the Info Worker product group says if there were such a thing were happening it would be going on away from the mainstream. Maybe in the Office for Macintosh group?

Info Worker is, after all, a very big group. There are places to hide. ANd, it would not be beyond the pale for Microsoft to be doing contingency work at all levels as Office 2007 (for Windows )nears shipment.

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You gotta ask the question though. And who better to pose it to than Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, aka Mr. Office System?

Raikes waved it off. "No," he said. "There's not a good business there."

So again: Microsoft says "nay."