[big rant]Finally had quite enough of Microsoft Office. I recently bought a new net-book (running XP) with which I am really pleased - I am at this moment sitting comfortably in a cafe drinking coffee - anyhow the net-book came pre-installed with Office 2007 on a 60 day free trial, which realistically allowed me to open a word document about 30 times.
Anyway, my main grouse was that at the end of this trial I was expected to revert back to something called Microsoft Works - or pay £90 for Office 2007.
Now. On my main computer running Vista, it came pre-installed with Microsoft Works - which is pretty rubbish but I was able to install Office 2003 which I legally owned from a OEM disk and away I went quite happy.
No problem I thought – for the net-book, just copy the Office 2003 to a pen drive and instal on the net-book and away we go. Wrong. It tried really hard to instal but it came back saying nice try but for this software to instal you really needed to have an earlier version already installed. Preferably MS Office 2000.....
This defeated me. I have the full fat MS Office 2003 – why on earth would I have to instal an older version?
So. This morning I decided to cut MS Office out of my life. Welcome Open Source. A 5 minute download, a couple minutes changing my set up for Open Source applications to automatically open Word/Excel docs etc. No more problems with .doc and .docx (why Oh why MS?) and it just WORKS!!!!!!
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Feeling much, much better now.
Donald
