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Post by The_Amber_Spyglass Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:05 pm

So, the ridiculous licensing t&c for MS Office that I bought in 2007 as a student (only 1 computer, a maximum number of installations) means that I cannot use how I please a product I have already paid for. In what other industry can you legally tell your customer how many times they can use a product and how they can use it? Imagine a car manufacturer selling you a car but declaring that only you may use it, that you are not permitted to sell it on without permission from them and that you may only use fuel from sites that they declare? How is what they do even legal?

Fuck 'em quite frankly. Very Happy

But that has given me the opportunity to try one of the many Office clones. The best rated and most prevalent is OpenOffice that I have downloaded this afternoon. So far, it has been able to do all the things that MS Office can do (it will even save in .doc format) and the best thing is that it is free!

Anybody else using it?
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Post by TexasBlue Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:50 pm

I don't use it because I have no use for it. To open doc files (and the like), I use Microsoft tools to do it.

But I'm surprised it took you this long to get to OO.org. I've read so much about it that it surprises me that Microsoft doesn't lower the price of their product or make it free. OO.org also updates that suite quite often.

Btw, dos it have a PDF reader? If not, I use FoxIt reader. A freeware app, naturally.
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Post by The_Amber_Spyglass Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:31 pm

The only reason I didn't get it before was because MS have had this offer for a few years for heavily discounted Office packages for students. We only paid £50 for the 2007 premium version, something that full cost I think was close to £150 at the time.

I'm about to register for a short course in a technical computer qualification that will (hopefully) greatly enhance my chances of getting into desk-based archaeology or other environmental management. Technically as a student I ought to be able to get Office 2010 dirt cheap.

No it doesn't have a pdf reader, nor can it save in pdf. I use acrobat reader to read them, and I think I have a freeware pdf saver somewhere on my laptop.
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Post by TexasBlue Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:25 pm

Don't use Adobe Acrobat. Get Foxit. You'll like it. Seriously. It's faster and it's not a target of hackers like everything else M$ makes (IE anyone?).

Here; http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/reader/


Here's a site for you to check out. It's been around for years;
http://www.techsupportalert.com/

You'll go blind looking for freeware stuff on here.
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Post by The_Amber_Spyglass Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:12 am

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out when I get back from my holiday
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Post by TexasBlue Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:14 pm

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