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."

Comments

Re:Office Update? What's that??

[daeg]

Windows Update is being phased out and will be fully replaced with Microsoft Update, which will be expanded to provide updates for all Microsoft programs. Office updates will then become as routine as operating system ones.

Re:Just gets easier

[WhiteWolf666]

Yes, actually.

http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x /user_guide2_draft.pdf

At a svelt 587 pages, it is exactly 496 pages longer than the Office 2003 Manual, located here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/1/0f1d5 b1f-53bc-47c3-bf6f-ac6d67cf9766/Office2003Guide_WP .doc .

I know size doesn't count for everything, but still; it's there, it's significantly better than the OEM MS Office manual, and it is accompanied by fantastic community support, including developer feedback.