Desktop without Microsoft
Well, I spent my week-end making my desktop less Microsoft-based. I first installed Mozilla Thunderbird, a nice e-mail client from the Mozilla project. It’s quite fast and cannot fall victim to some script viruses that Outlook Express can easily fall for.
Next in line was Mozilla Firebird. This browser has been gettign some rave reviews lately. It is very performant, based on the Netscape architecture, and supports many cool features like tabbed browsing.
Finally, I started trying out OpenOffice.org 1.1. This is an open-source freeware equivalent to Microsoft Office. I’ve written one DVD critique with it so far and must say I am quite impressed.
I’ll keep you posted on my use of these tools and if I keep using them.
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