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  1. Install Open Office! on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 1

    As an experiment, one of my friends wanted to see if he could make people think they were using MS office, when really it was Open Office. He succeeded admirably... He installed open office, changed the icons to look like the MS office ones, changed all links to the files so they said things like 'microsoft excel', and set all the defaults and everything in the programs so they saved documents and everything the same way as the microsoft equivalents. Kind of a pain in the butt, but most users are not going to notice the difference between the two pieces of software (particularly if they're being told they're launching MS products)...