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Hi,

Short andswer: no. Ubuntu is a different system, and is not designed to run Windows programs. Similarly, Windows is not designed to run Ubuntu programs.

However, many people are using a software called "wine", which can run Windows programs in Ubuntu. It does not work all the time, but it can help for specific applications.
FAQ #64: “Using WINE in Ubuntu to run Windows applications”.

A fairly crucial question is what do your professors use?

Many academics and big businesses use linux already and would rather receive work produced in the much safer linux standards than the known vulnerable microsoft ones. Of course those that are using linux are smart because they can read many different formats, even microsoft documents, whereas Windows restricts itself to being unable to read anything linux. While viruses have been transmitted through ".doc"s none have been able to compromise ".odt"s which is the linux standard office format. Linux can also save in microsofts ".doc" and ".xls" formats and this can be set as the default in OpenOffice, which is the standard Office package in Ubuntu.

OpenOffice has allowed people to save documents in pdf formats for years where that can often be an extra package you'd need to buy-in for Microsoft Office. With Microsoft Office it can be difficult to write a page of mathematical equations but linux (including Ubuntu) has access to free programs such as LaTex that can write these sorts of things easily.

Moving away from Office products there are a whole plethora of programs often designed by academics for academics, for/as student projects and thesis' or for/as research projects and general academic work. Indeed it's only quite recently that linux has expanded into the business world out of academia yet already we see Free Software of a higher quality than businesses locked into Windows can afford to buy to use.

Sometimes there might be an annoyance where something doesn't work quite the way you want it. A month or two ago someone complained they couldn't print cheques in 'gnucash', the developers of the 'gnucash' project read the bug-report and 'gnucash' now has that feature, although i think its only released as an alpha or beta test so if you use it and find an error please be quick to report it back to them so they can fix it ;)

Even more recently linux (Ubuntu has been one of the leaders in this one) has been taking on the mainstream desktop market, particularly struggling to get multimedia hardware manufacturers and the games industry to see the benefits of supporting their products in the only high growth market in the IT industry today. We are already seeing some graphics card manufacturers trying to work out what is required in good OpenSource drivers. Despite their slow steep learning curve our own linux developers (programmers) have already developed quite usable drivers even with the lack of information the manufacturers have been willing to share. I'm sure we shall see some great improvement over the next year or so.

Also with the huge dominance of the desktop market by microsoft (Linux dominates the server and hand-helds markets) a project called Wine established itself quite a long time ago. Wine stands fo "Wine Is Not an Emulator" because although it does the same job it uses a much more sophisticated approach to run programs written for Windows much faster than could be done through a traditional emulator. Sometimes Windows programs don't work well immediately and need extra tricks or special ways of using Wine and so they have a database of all the Windows programs people have tried out and the tricks they used to get the programs working
http://appdb.winehq.org/
However, given the current nature of the games industry and some others, most of us have installed Windows either as a dual-boot or better still inside a virtual machine inside Ubuntu but this is usually 'just in case'. Another way to get Windows programs working in linux is to buy into the CrossOver project.

The straight-forward answer to your question is that Windows and Microsoft programs are very specifically only written to run on Windows just as linux programs are written to only run on linux and unix programs are written to only run on unix. However with Linux, unix and BSD programs tend to be written OpenSource which means that programmers can go in and changes things around a little fairly easily to run on a different system - this is much easier to do between one version of linux and another, or from linux to Mac and i think from unix to linux but to and fro between the linux world and Windows is much trickier. So the short answer is that there can be no guarantee that a microsoft program will run on linux. However, there's usually a native linux program that's better anyway, and there are other options which usually work well.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-72731b215bbd1ce36e3b84ac7ce114925ce16460

Personally i've not needed to use a Windows program or game for several months already and have had no trouble playing commercial High-Definition dvd's even on this old monitor and ancient ati graphics card :) OpenOffice is much better than Microsquish Office although i was quite a big fan of the MS Office before i found OpenOffice. I even use it in Windows when i'm on a different machine that doesn't have linux
http://download.openoffice.org/
I've always been able to find a much better linux equivalent quite easily and have found quite a few great linux games which i've become quite addicted to ;)

I hope this helps!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Ps This is one reason i changed. I just got really fed up of slowdowns and having to do virus scans all the time
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus
There are currently 300, 000 known Windows viruses but only 300 linux ones, and they are unlikely to have much success trying to infect anything because of the nature of linux :)