windows office: i have the software for windows office 2007. i'm also build my own computer. i dont want to pay for windows 7. so my idea is that i would download Linux (since its free), and install windows office for school work. so is this idea possible?|||No windows office is only made for WINDOWS|||Linux can not run Windows software. It only works on Windows. However there are programs that will allow you to run Windows software on a Linux PC. It uses an emulator, which means it runs a "fake" version of Windows on the Linux computer. This allows you to run most Windows software on a Linux computer. Most versions of Linux come with a pre-installed version of a Windows emulator. However, it means that every command for the Windows program has to be translated into a Linux command for it to run. Doing this will slow the Windows program. You may have performance issues with the speed of the program. An alternative is to download Open Office. It is a clone of the Windows Office program originally designed for Linux, but now also available in PC and MAC versions. It is free, can create, read, and edit all the standard formats used by Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access). One file created by Open Office and saved in one of the MS Office formats is identical to a file created with the real MS Office program. htt;://openoffice.org|||I love it when people say NO it can't work, then go on to tell you how to do it! Anyways, Yes you CAN run it, but it's not always stable and sometimes has issues with printers. It's REALLY not recommended. Open / LibreOffice are better anyways and 100% with MS Office. BTW: Who makes "Windows" Office.....Not Microsoft!|||Microsoft Office's "light" version runs in LINUX because it is a web application, but you can't run the full version in LINUX. The "light" version is completely free and offers free cloud storage and other cloud services. You can get it here: http://www.docs.com/|||How To Install Microsoft Office 2007 On Linux http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-inst鈥?/a> LUg.|||no sorry.|||No you can't, but there are a few solutions. Some programs on Linux allow you to run windows applications and thus you could use Windows on Linux. However, Im not 100 percent sure this will work. However, I know for a fact that you can use open office which is almost exactly the same. Go to http://www.openoffice.org/ and download it. It is about 98% the same as Office word and excel, but its free. Plus you can even same documents as word and excel documents on there. In terms of programming, Linux is certainly the best. If you are interested in writing code then its great, but even better is that Linux is all open source. Under their distribution requirements, all linux os have to include the source code with the os. Thus, if you can edit the code, you can literally adjust linux to any way you want it. It is the most custom editable os there is. Also, it can be good for slow or old computers, and especially those without much ram.|||Some Windows programs work on Linux with the help of Wine. As for as MS Office goes Libre/ Open office are just as good anyway. Yes Eclipse the JAVA ide works on Linux (*huge shock* =| )