Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever

Computerworld ^ | 2-15 | Gregg Keizer

[Politicalmom]

I’ve been happily using Open Office for free for at least 5 years.

[Dan(9698)]

Open office works great.

[dangerdoc]

They are targeting me, I just installed office 97 on my new win system. I downloaded open office just in case they didn’t support 97 any more

[GeronL]

Nothing wrong with using Office 2007.

I use Open Office, my only gripe is I haven’t figured out how to use Korean letters. (or more accurately hangul)

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Worth every penny I paid for it.

[Greysard]

Microsoft saturated the market; I don't know anyone who doesn't have MS Office but wants to have.

If the number of customers is constant (and dropping, due to recessions) then the company has to tighten the grip on existing customers. Just like Obama.

Unfortunately, at some point people will realize that hacked versions are an increasingly good value for the money. MS was even so kind to design the hack right into their products. As the industry rolls back from polished rows of cubicles and necktie-wearing engineers in white shirts to dirty warehouses and fly by night companies, businesses will see less value in compliance - especially if to stay legal you have to pay twice and thrice for the same product.

[TheCipher]

Korean Letters in Open Office

[GeronL]

with Linux

[Tanniker Smith]

So Microsoft is conceding defeats to Google Docs?

[Mr Rogers]

I’ve replaced Microsoft Word with Kingsoft Writer. Faster and does all that I need with a better interface, IMHO.

[BwanaNdege]

The FR community continues to surprise and delight!

[ThomasThomas]

I have found features missing in Open office that I need. In power point I can adjust character spacing by a 1/10 of a point. I haven’t found this in Open Office.
I wonder if you could install it on a virtual machine and them move the virtual machine to a new location?

[norwaypinesavage]

Pretty soon a copy of MS Office 97 will cost more than the latest release from Microsoft. I have a couple of them, and they do everything I need to do. This is important, because Open Office spreadsheet graphing is useless.

[50sDad]

I still love Win98, and use it in arcade machines. It gets the job done for the simple things I have to do on trailing edge equipment, which I have BOXES of. I am Mad Max of the info superhighway. Suck it, Bill Gates!

[dennisw]

Office 2000 still works on my Windows 7/64bit/8gb ram machine for my limited purposes -— Word and Front Page.

[OneWingedShark]

I’d much rather stick with WordPerfect.

[Utilizer]

Yet another reason why I will never buy another MS product as long as I can help it. Win 2k and XP were the last since I had no choice -they came with the system(s), but everything else possible is all Linux all the time.

To this day, people are still surprised at what they can do on a Linux system -FREE! Twenty dollars for an old used computer if you don't already have one and a free download onto CD for the install and she's right, mate!

[Secret Agent Man]

apparently their strategy is to reduce the number of people buying ms-office.