Yes.
You can use OpenOffice.org on Linux to open and edit Microsoft Office documents. OOo includes clones of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps. Abiword will perform a similar job, though only for Word, I believe. Both are available for Windows and Linux and maybe more. If you use those same apps on Linux, then your docs will be usable in Windows as well. This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of compatibility between Windows and Linux. There is much more!
If the fashion company uses or works with documents created with Adobe, Apple, or Windows-specific products, then chances are Linux will not be a good fit for the company. Otherwise, there are plenty of design and art applications for fashion designers, photographers, and artists alike on many Linux distributions.
Yes. Documents are platform agnostic; as long as you have a program on Windows to open the document, there should be no problems.
Preemptive (both Windows and Linux).
For windows: dir *.doc For Unix/Linux: ls *.doc
MEPIS, or any other Linux distribution, is not directly compatible with Windows. Most files, like documents, movies, and music, can be used and enjoyed on MEPIS. MEPIS cannot natively support Windows programs. Wine, an application layer, can be used to run about 70% of Windows programs. MEPIS is not compatible with Windows drivers, though it has a program known as "ndiswrapper" to make a wireless card work with a Windows driver if Linux doesn't have one.
Linux already is a serious competitor to Windows, especially in markets outside of the desktop. Linux fully dominates over Windows on servers, mobile, routers, embedded, and supercomputing markets. Some are even believing Linux is fast becoming the industry standard operating system in these markets because of how readily it can be made to work. On the desktop, Linux is alsoa threat to Windows market share, by Microsoft's own admission. Look up the Halloween Documents, which are a series of leaked memos by someone high up in Microsoft addressing Linux as Microsoft's largest credible threat.
Linux is considered to be more secure than Windows.
Two operating systems are; Windows, and Linux.
Yes. Ubuntu can read files and directories created by a Windows system.
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There is no such thing as "Windows Linux." Linux is not a version of Windows and has nothing at all to do with Windows. They are two totally completely different operating systems made by completely different people.