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The Microsoft Office Rental Program
LWATCDR writes "Yes, it looks like Microsoft is going to a rental program for Office.
From the article,
'The software bundle, which also includes Microsoft's Live OneCare computer security software, will be sold at nearly 700 Circuit City stores for $70 per year.'
Well I for one will be happy to stick with OpenOffice for now. From Microsoft's point of view it means a constant flow of money. For the customer it means you only have to pay a little each year instead of a lot every few years. I don't think this will save the average user any money and I wonder about problems with 'activation.'
So will this fly, or will it give a big push to OpenOffice?
FTFA:
Now that Microsoft makes their OS insecure intentionally by design , and sells you the software to secure it, can we begin to prosecute them the same way we would prosecute a local mafia protection racket?
I picture Steve Ballmer (monkey boy) and Bill Gates (nerdy boy) showing up at your house... Steve is wildly throwing chairs around, smashing them through your front windows, and making grunting noises. Bill is pleading with you to just buy these OneCare bananas... They're the only kind of bananas that will make him stop throwing chairs through your windows!
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
The only difference between Office '97 it's successors is product activation, and extra fees for PowerPoint.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
It's been a few years now since I've experienced the outspokeness of uni professors firsthand, but thank you so much for reinforcing my observation that just because they know what they're talking about in their subject of choice, doesn't mean they aren't just as moronic as the average construction worker once they start yapping about other subjects.
Please stay in your cocoon and leave the real-world decisions to those of us who actually live in it.
No wonder college grads are such idiots nowadays.
Protector of Capitalist views,
Meorah
Haha. People raising families in "economically depressed" areas don't need an office suite.
Windows comes with Wordpad, Calendar, Windows Mail, etc. If you don't even have $70 then you won't be using spreadsheets for much.
Hell maybe Ferrari should stop ripping off economically disadvantaged people such as myself...
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.