Chris
I currently use Win 7 on one machine and various blends of Linux on several
others. Win Xp I still keep, but only on a virtual machine in Linux (not
vice versa). The holes and flaws and irritations in MS Win are immense but
as so much is written for it it retains a default position like the Big Man
on the tribal throne. As you know, it only has this dominance in the
pc/laptop market, Unix systems dominate server and corporate systems and
the little Linux i.e Android is cornering other markets. I imagine or
suspect that as the traditional pc fades away, and as the founder
generation retires from Microsoft, it might start to become a part of the
background, and MS will gradually evanesce into the pure abstraction of
finance.
Roger, as far as I recall, it's very easy to migrate files from Outlook
Express to Thunderbird but I don't know about Quark. The best known DT
publisher for Linux is Scribus - it's ok - I used it to construct the LPS's
latest members' mag - which was almost 50pp. But whether it would suit your
needs I don't know.
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