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Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA)
Ant writes "PC World is reporting that Microsoft's Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) program will require mandatory validation of Office software starting October 27 (2006)." From the article: "Similarly, starting in January, users of Office Update will have to validate the legitimacy of their Office software before they can use the service, Microsoft added. Users absolutely hated the first iteration of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, and their protests pressured the company into revising it about a year after it launched in July 2005."
Yeah, they need to just get with the program and do perpetual Beta versions, like Google.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Yes, users hated it, so they expanded the program to cover other products. Thanks, MS!
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I really don't get it. Why continue to do something after it's been proven ineffective?
"Stop crying. If you want to cry I'll give you something to cry about. Whack! There, how did you like that? Now stop crying."
There's really no accounting for the behavior of people. That's why, on the whole I prefer hanging out with cats.
KFG
Come closer, little Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Don't worry, I won't hurt you.
You're just so cute!
I think I will call you, Mini-DRM, because you're unwanted, intrusive, and I keep tripping over you while trying to use my legitimately purchased WinVista PCs!
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Coming soon:
PC World is reporting that Microsoft's Notepad Genuine Advantage (NGA) program will require mandatory validation of Notepad.exe starting [insert happy date here]"
Considering that a search on Amazon returned 334 hits just for books on Openoffice, I'm sure one of them can tell you how to insert in your spooky halloween clipart.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Or maybe MS likes pissing of it's customers...nah that can't be it!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive
> I'd like to thank Firefox 2.0 for allowing me to post here without spelling mistakes. Thanks to FF I can now speak learnedly.
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Well, at the very least with more deftly polished ignorance...
but it seems unimaginable for the business world to wean its way off of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
Not to mention that Excel beats the turd out of Calc in its ability to parse text files - at least at first glance.
Maybe I'm a dumbass, but I couldn't figure out how to load a pipe delimited file into calc like I could do so in Excel.
Excel is still more intuitive and provides more power to working with larger lists too. There's no AFAIK pivot tables in Calc either.
Both really strong reasons for the enterprise to continue to use Excel. Don't give me some cock and bull story about most end users not needing to do that. I work with about 50 who'd argue otherwise.
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No, but when somebody says "Just send me a Word-Doc" it becomes easier to say "I don't own Word".
Martin