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Microsoft Office is a commonly-used, proprietary office suite. Because the Microsoft Office suite is designed for Microsoft Windows, it cannot be installed directly onto a computer running Ubuntu. However, it is possible to install and run certain versions of Office using the  WINE  Windows-compatibility layer available in Ubuntu. WINE is available only for the Intel/x86 platform. Alternatively, Ubuntu offers a wide range of high-quality office software, some of which is compatible with the Microsoft Office file formats. Notably,  LibreOffice  is Ubuntu's default office suite and is installed/available on all platforms supported by Ubuntu. A brief guide to the office software available in Ubuntu can be found on the  OfficeApplications  page. The following guide gives instructions on how to install and run Microsoft Office on Ubuntu by using WINE. Checking if your version of Office is supported by WINE This guide assumes that you have a copy o...

Microsoft Teams is available for Linux users in public preview, enabling high quality collaboration experiences for the open source community at work and in educational institutions. Users can download the native Linux packages in .deb and .rpm formats  here . We are constantly improving based on community feedback, so please download and submit feedback based on your experience. The Microsoft Teams client is the first Microsoft 365 app that is coming to Linux desktops, and will support all of Teams’ core capabilities. Teams is the hub for teamwork that brings together chat, video meetings, calling, and collaboration on Office 365 documents and business processes within a single, integrated experience. Most of our customers have devices running on a variety of different platforms such as Windows 10, Linux and others. We are committed to supporting mixed environments across our cloud and productivity offerings, and with this announcement, we are pleased to extend the Tea...

Ubuntu is the world’s most popular open-source desktop operating system, and we think this is our best release to date. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is an enterprise-grade, secure, cost-effective operating system for organisations and home users. Before I summarise the changes in this release, let’s address something I’ve seen discussed in the wider desktop Linux community; there is a perception that the desktop is no longer a priority for us. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and here’s why; the people who use Ubuntu Desktop are often passionate people making huge waves in their industry. They want to build the next big thing, such as AI/ML, self-driving cars, public cloud services, and container orchestration. These have all emerged while we’ve been working on the Linux desktop, and all of these innovations have driven waves of Ubuntu Desktop adoption in the enterprise. As a consequence, Ubuntu was the first choice in these new domains. So even though Ubuntu is a popular community s...

Go to VM/ Settings.... or Ctrl+D in VMware Workstation. Under Virtual Machine Settings go to Options Click on Shared Folders and click on Always Enabled and set the path of the shared folder from Windows. To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal  vmware-hgfsclient Now all we have to do is to re install the VMWare config tools. Tools will be mounted as below: Open and copy the the VMWareTools.gz to desktop and extract it. Open terminal, type sudo  space and drog drop the vmware-config-tools.pl from extracted folder. Follow the prompts, accepting the default values (press Enter) Share folder will be available under Other Locations/ Computer/ mnt/ hgfs/ SharedFolder