No.

It is technically possible to adapt Microsoft Office to Linux, but Microsoft isn't keen on allowing Office users to choose their operating system. There are other issues with MS Office and openness — like Microsoft's fierce opposition to supporting the OpenDocument format.

However, a complete, Free, reliable office suite exists: OpenOffice.org. It will happily use all your existing office files in MS-Word, MS-Excel, and MS-PowerPoint format, and is really free (both as in freedom and as in price). And it runs on Windows as well as on Linux.

I agree with Allen W Jones above, but instead of paying for a product such as 'CrossOver Office', you can use Wine. Wine is a free open source piece of software, that CrossOver Office is based on. You can find Wine and the list of applications it works with at [url]http://winehq.com[/url]. However, only some versions of Microsoft Office work with Wine. What version of Microsoft Office do you want to run? Alternatively, you can run Windows inside Linux with VirtualBox. For help installing VirtualBox, please tell us what distribution of Linux you use?

It is technically possible for you to use Microsoft Office on Linux VIA the use of Wine, which runs it nicely. If you have the disk for 2003 or 2007, WINE should run and install it just fine (with the experience that I've had).

However, there really isn't a real need to do so. OpenOffice (which comes standard with an Ubuntu install, and with most distros, apparently) has become MUCH better, to the extent where I have completely shelved Office in favor of it. Updates are much more rapid, the interface is essentially the same, it looks a LOT nicer now, and it is more familiar in comparison to the new 2007 look, which is unnecessarily arbitrary.

I am a student who is required to have Office, and yet I have shelved it in favor of the open source. I suggest you do the same.

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To who ever asked the question:-

For all questions starting with ("Can I run......" in this case MS Office "on ........." in this case Linux? ).

The answer depends on:-

Y you need/want to run ........ in the case MS Office?

If the answer is (just to see if I can) then the answer is YES

If the answer is so I can work on documents that iver others have worked on in MS Office or So that I can share my Documents with others that use MS Office then the answer is another question. Y not use something like OpenOffice? (with care to rember to "save as" makeing shour that the document is saveed in the apropate formati).

If the answer is I need "MS Access" or "MS Access Pro" then NO (there are database programs in sweets like OpenOffice but speeking as a persion who has done Access programming. there is nothing quite like Access and Access is very finikey about the envarment it works in esp if useing any of the VB fuctions)

If the answer is (I need to becous) then the answer is NO


P.S.
I do not understand this need/wish to use programs from one platform on another platform. I use Linux, Unix, OS X, MS Windows nnn OS2, DOS and BeOS. Thay all have the strents and weekness and I have found that one has to use the right tool for the right job.

BUT there are two killer programs for me "OpenOffice" becous it works on all plaforms and "The GIMP" becous it dous what I want it to do on all platforms.

Steve

From what i've heard Excel/Powerpoint/Word/Outlook normally work fine (2003 and 2007 editions) but access has a long histroy of not working atall!