Efforts to go Microsoft free

[Rod Roark]

Sounds likely they're using ActiveX at the client, which means that what
they offer is not a WWW application but a proprietary Internet
application that requires a custom Microsoft client.  If so, you'll
never become MS free by using this service.

Try VMware.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

Charlie Bullen wrote:
> 
> Hello to ALL,
> 
> I am trying as much as possible to go Microsoft free. As paart of this
> strategy I have been using Star Office, both for  Win98 and Linux and
> have found that files creeated on one aare completely usable on the
> other. In faact Im storing all of the files created on my Win machine
> on my linux box as I have Samba running on the linux box.
> 
> Ive encountered 1 criticle problem. I have to aaccess a protected web
> site www.gosolo.wspan.com which claims to require Internet explorer. I
> was real happy to find that I could access the site via the Staroffice
>  Browser running under windows. Yesterday I got a modem for my Linux
> (Suse 6.2) box configured it got it working fine (infact Im sending
> this email from the Star Office email client) unfortunatley I cant
> access the web page with the staroffice browser under linux. I can get
> to the first page , Click the icon to login and it goes to a page that
> says I have to have IE5.0
> 
> This page never worked under netscape under win98.
> 
> Accessing this page is a mission criticle function so until I can
> figure out how to make this work I'm stuck with Windows and IE%.
> 
> Any Ideas
> 
> Thaks Charlie Bullen