Posted on 12/28/2017 12:42:05 PM PST by bgill
Unfortunately, I've had to get a new computer and it's an Acer Windows 10. Does it not have Windows Office? From searches, apparently Windows 10 doesn't come with everything previous systems (95, XP, Windows 7) did. All I can find is a 30 day trial and then purchase window which asks for a 25 number key number which I can't find anywhere in the 5 small pieces of paperwork that came in the box. And the key number looks to be for a 30 day trial. Do I have to buy Office? What else will I have to buy? Any other surprises? Thanks.
My daughter gave me her old Apple machine. It is a beautiful piece of hardware but Apple long ago stopped issuing OS updates for it. Do you think Linux Mint is an option?
Extended support is mighty expensive, and generally not for home users. Buying a new Win 7 device is pretty impossible because MS does not allow it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
LibreOffice will save to docx (and a whole lot of other) formats.
I have looked into gnucash and really like it, but I would need to import all my data from Quickbooks, I also use Quickbooks payroll, so I am kind of stuck with it. All the other payroll companies I tried and looked into are Ripoffs and really suck.
the creator of gnucash says he will incorporate an option to import iif files from quickbooks, IF someone wrote the Parser for the Data first. iif files are proprietary and not standard. I considered asking my brother Mr Linux, but he is pretty busy cashing the checks that show up in the mail everyday for his royalties.
I may ask him anyway
You can buy a new Windows 7 laptop??? Where? I desperately want one.
Hey, that's no longer true. They've improved that a lot: now it's every three months. And there's another one coming right up!
I had (note past tense) four Windows 10 boxes here at Chez Drill, of which two failed on update 1703. Spent 10 days troubleshooting, finally downloaded a fresh ISO of the entire OS (10 GB), forced that through, and damned if the next week after they pushed 1709, mandatory of course, and it failed on one of the two that 1703 had succeeded on the previous month. Now, I really do like Windows 10 but I don't want a brand-new fresh OS install every quarter. I don't want to spend time troubleshooting Microsoft's QA mistakes.
One of those machines is now Mint 18.3 running Office Libre, Thunderbird, and Firefox, all bundled. It does just fine. Highly recommended to everyone as angry at Microsoft as I've become, and that OS fed me for two decades. They really need to get a handle on this because the new system just isn't working.
Agree.
New Win 7 laptops and desktops available at Dell Business and HP Business.
We’d love to be able to downgrade our new HP Win 10 laptops to Win 7, but it (allegedly) isn’t possible. Hubby is configuring his new astronomy system, and the apps he needs to use with the telescope don’t work with Win 10 - yet (if ever). Disappointing.
YES!!! you will need to poke around for instructions for your model, but it is definitely doable.
Don’t junk your old Mac hardware just because it can no longer get new software updates. Get some new life in your old Macs with the GNU/Linux operating system! We’ll show you how to “try it before you buy it” so to speak to see how a specific version of GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, will run on your aging Mac.
https://www.imore.com/how-try-out-linux-aging-mac
Windows 10 is not that bad. I went from XP to Windows 10. I was considering jumping to Win 7 but support runs out soon so I made the leap.
I’m as picky about these things as you seem to be but I am fine with Window 10.
To your question about Office, forget windows Office. Get open source office. It is just like you will remember the old Office being. It will open all your old files and it is quick, smooth.
Get the Apache Version.
Thanks. I just dowloaded Open Office.
Go to Dell.com. In the search field at the top, type in Windows 7. They’re selling several — all new. They’re sold through their Business section, but anyone can buy them. Laptops are around $1,000 depending on what features you want. The desktop I’m looking at is around $700; some are more and some are less.
HP is selling them, too.
Check your FReepmail in a couple minutes.
Windows 10 might be able to find the printer driver online. Go to device manager and see if it shows up. If it does you can right-click on it and have it look for a driver.
“It used to come standard on all new PCs.”
I bought a new pc or two and they didn’t have office free.
Lots of free apps do more.
Microsoft Office was never free. Sure lots of computers were sold with it bundled, but the OEM paid for the bundle. You can either buy a permanent license for Microsoft Office for one machine or get Office365 which is an annual software lease, but it can be used on up to 5 devices.
Every one I had in the ‘90s and early 2000s came with Office, and it sooo pissed me off. I was (still am) a WordPerfect / Lotus person, and when Gates started bundling Office with his new PCs, MS Office became industry standard. (This bundling is why we all use Office instead of superior applications; everyone had it.)
“when Gates started bundling Office with his new PCs”
I don’t remember Gates having a line of pc’s.
Oh, please; you know what I mean. Gimme a frickin’ break.
go to outlook.com
All the office modules are there to use.
You will need to create a Windows/Microsoft ID if you haven’t already
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