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Where did you read that? My company is right in the middle of a massive Micro$oft software audit... In all honesty, I would not pay Microsoft for anything, go get Open Office or whatever.... We pay them thousands upon thousands of dollars and are treated very poorly, like some kind of criminals... and we are very good about licensing. This is not how to treat paying customers.Originally Posted by Mike Henderson
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Looks like Oracle overlords decided that fish was too small and threw it back. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._too_late.html
Last edited by Curt Harms; 04-26-2011 at 7:54 AM.
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That is not correct when it comes the the legality of the idea. We had a Microsoft Audit last year. Pretty brutal and the detail they go into is unbelievable. I had one "deficiency" - a 2007 Pro was installed instead of Standard. Luckily, all we had to do was upgrade the license.
2010 needs to be activated and they now check activation keys against their database. There are "workarounds" but they are ... well... illegal.
2007 can legally be installed on 1 machine but there is no activation.
oh, and +1 for LibreOffice.
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Technically yes you can, however; you can only use it on one computer at a time.
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Well, I'm not sure of that. I'm going from memory and my memory is that it was only for computers used at home. Maybe it was the situation where only one computer could be used at a time. And I think I read it in the license text. But that's a long time ago and I'm just going by memory so don't depend on my memory.
Back when I was installing Office 2007 on my home computer, I had a new computer that failed after I had installed Office 2007. I was able to install it on my replacement computer without problems. I couldn't deactivate it off the failed computer. That's why I checked the license - to see if there would be a problem. But it installed fine and the registration (activation) went through without a hitch.
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Last edited by Mike Henderson; 04-26-2011 at 9:28 AM.
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Haha! Looks like they were smart enough to realize that the types of people that use open source products are not the types of people that take kindly to evil big profit-at-all-costs-even-though-our-product-sucks corporations. Good on them for that at least...
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+1Try Open Office.
It's free, so nothing to lose.
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I've been using OpenOffice for years, on Mac and PC and Linux.
I do admit I almost never touch Powerpoint (or Open Office Impress).
However for my word processing and spreadsheet needs it does just fine. Only rarely have I had an Excel spreadsheet sent to me that did not work 100% with OpenOffice. That was typically some esoteric enormous database-linked monstrosity from the Universities HR or Pension department.
I write documents in openoffice all the time, export them in MS-Word format, and send them to other people, and have NEVER had a document that they couldn't read. In fact, I don't think they even realize that I don't have MS-Word installed.
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We bought Office Professional Academic 2010 from Academic Superstore and installed in on both our desktop and laptop. I seem to remember we could put it on two or three computers. Anyway, it's on both desktop and laptop and works well and at the same time.
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