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Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day
arcticstoat points out an article at Custom PC, according to which: "Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti-Piracy Day. Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy. ... As well as educating people about piracy, Microsoft has also initiated a huge list of legal proceedings that it's taking out against pirates. Microsoft isn't messing about when it says 'global' either. The list of 49 countries that Microsoft is targeting spans six continents, and ranges from the UK and the US all the way through to Chile, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and China." Interestingly enough, unauthorized copies of Vista might not be harming the company all that much: reader twitter was among several to contribute links to a related story at Computer World which highlights Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton's acknowledgement that pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista and Office 2003 over 2007.
...invest heavily in warships to help protect our shipping lanes. Nothing could be a better use of their money than helping stop the violence inherent in piracy on the high-seas. Already, many American warships are in stand-off confrontations with merchies taken over by pirates. I--
Sorry, what? This is about software? How Microsoft is concerned about companies who are missing one or two licenses out of 5,000 or 12 year old kids bragging that they got XP off of I13|<p1R4Cy.com? Pfff. In that case, screw 'em.
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That's true. It feels strange to say this sort of things about Microsoft, especially on Slashdot, but Office 2007 is pretty decent software, and the ribbon is -dare I say it?- a clever and even innovative UI approach. (bye bye karma...)
Once you get over the fact that a few things are in different places
That's one of my biggest gripes about Microsoft! Why in the hell do they DO that??? How stupid do they think we are?
Pretty stupid, I guess. They take the same damned program, move shit around, rename other shit, add fluff and eye candy and then expect us to buy the sam load of dingo kidneys all over again and...
Hell, I guess we ARE that stupid. I mean, I have XP on my box.
We have Offoce 2000 at work. Does Office 2007 do anything Office 2003 doesn't? Or even anything Office 2000 doesn't? What makes it worth the extra Five hundred dollars per license????
Could this be contributing to our global economic meltdown?
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Would this be a good place to mention that it took me at least ten minutes to figure out what they did with the File menu so that I could convert an OOXML document someone sent me into a different file format?
As in I work in IT and it took me 10 minutes to find the Save As option the first time I used the beribboned Office ...
I use OpenOffice because I can find things on the Menus ....
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Yes,but you seem to be missing the bigger picture. IMHO Office 07 is a perfect example of how MSFT has lost its way. MSFT was first and foremost a business software company. Ever since Ballmer has taken over they have lost their focus because Ballmer wants to be Steve Jobs so bad it hurts. Just let me give a couple of examples: Vista Business-Resource sucking hog and Aero 3d crap on a business OS? WTF? Office 07-great for home users who haven't used Office suites,but for the business users that have been using Office since the days of Office 95 it is simply confusing,and is there even a way to make it go back to the classic menu system? If there is I haven't found it.
They have seem to completely forgotten since Ballmer took over that businesses are their bread and butter. Businesses are the ones that buy volume and enterprise licenses. Businesses are the ones who pay support contracts. And what folks use at work is what they are going to want at home.IMHO there is a good reason why businesses are skipping Vista,and that is because it simply isn't a business OS. And I have noticed many are skipping Office 07 too,though not as many as Vista. So I hope that MSFT gets the message and makes a Windows 2009 Professional,because if they keep trying to force a home OS on businesses they are going to end up losing a lot of their customers to Apple and Linux. Of course firing Ballmer would be a good idea too,since he seems to want to work at Apple and not MSFT.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.