Switching to MorphOS

[takemehomegrandma]

(Edit: I re-did the post below. Sorry for any confusion! )

[takemehomegrandma]

But how about:

editing MS Office documents

Well, for your service (, I have just tried out the online version of Microsoft Office under MorphOS (OWB spoofing as Chrome).

The online version of MS Office is reduced in features (as seen in the screen shots below); it's kind of rudimentary actually. I think Microsoft's idea with it, is that should function as a way to edit already existing documents created in the "full" version of MS Office (and saved on Sky Drive), rather than functioning as a free, online office *replacement*.

So to answer your question - sure *you can* "edit MS Office documents" on MorphOS this way. It can feel a bit sluggish compared to having the real MS Office on a Windows box, some things more than other (like key repeating, and the fact that it auto-saves your work on a regular basis, which takes a second or two), and the application is prone to crash in some circumstances (like when opening the font selector and closing it again without selecting a font). When the application crash, it restarts, and recreates your document from the latest save point (or auto-save point).

Word works quite OK for what it's meant to do. It's nothing I'd write a book on though! PowerPoint is kind of OK as well. Excel is IMHO the app which suffers the most from the feature stripping.

I made some pictures!

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MS Word

Just typing some headline, text, and trying the various fonts


Going to insert some clip art. Searching for a butterfly, and find a nice blue one! ;-)


It was kind of big, so reducing it to 50%


Spellchecker doesn't like the word "MorphOS"! Huh?! ;-)


But changing the dictionary language to Swedish...


...renders a whole lot more errors! :-)


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MS PowerPoint

Selecting a theme for my new presentation


Entering a title and subtitle in the presentation's title slide


Entering some text into the new slide


New slide with two columns. Entering notes in the note field at the bottom of the screen, trying out how formated text works there. Inserting a blue butterfly from the clip art, and selecting a tilted picture effect for it


Entering a slide title and some points in the left column


Hitting the "show slide show" button. Imagine if this would have opened up in full screen mode instead of inside the browser! :-)


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MS Excel

Entering some data, changing the width of some columns


Going to insert a diagram


Diagram inserted, but going to need some editing before I'm satisfied with it


Diagram edited (new title, etc) and repositioned in the spreadsheet


Just trying out some more formating options


There is another Microsoft office application available there as well, "MS OneNote". I have no idea what that is. Have never used in in the "real" Office, and I haven't looked at it here either...

So, There!

[takemehomegrandma]

Can't login in to my Windows Live account, ha ha ha. Probably they suspended/deleted my account due to not using for long time. Nevermind.
What else would I need in MOS? GIMP! I'm sure there is some decent equivalent. Any suggestions?
And what about OWB? I noticed Facebook bookmark on your pictures. Does facebook chat work? Uploading pictures in ebay?
How OWB works, generally, what is missing, if compared to Firefox or Chromium?
Oh, how about porting Chromium to MorphOS? Do I demand too much?
My AROS installation is  unfortunately offline, so I can't test OWB.

It's a bit annoying that Fab *still* calls his browser "OWB", since it misleads people to think that it's the same thing as... eh, well "OWB" :p AFAIK you can't run this one on AROS. It's a different thing.

It's a very feature rich and complete browser. The latest version (v1.12) is based on WebKit r80266  (March 2011), which is a very up to date version of WebKit. So *this is* (kind of) "Chrome" already. And "Safari". Etc. At least engine-wise, since they are all based on WebKit. So yes, you can definitely chat in Facebook, you can use Google Docs, MS Office, Flickr, whatever. But in a very enjoyable "MUI way", just like in IBrowse if you remember. Heck, this browser actually handles CSS3 better than the current version of Internet Explorer (IE8). That's cool! And it has a real download manager, book mark handler, private browsing, whatever! Very feature rich!

This is the first *real* browser on *any* Amiga platform. You can *really* use it, *for real*!

Like on any Amiga flavor, the Flash support leaves a lot to ask for. But this one still has the best way to handle Flash of all other Amiga browsers IMHO, and I'm looking forward to see Flash being marginalized in the future by HTML5, CSS3, java, etc (which this browser handles like a charm!)

There are many screen shots available if you search a little, and videos of it playing YouTube videos in full screen, etc. Can't remember any good links though, maybe others can help?