Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"
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| In fairness, I have not used the trial version of Office-2007. But, after my
| experience with the trial version of Office-2003, I wouldn't touch it with a
| ten foot pole. Please make sure your friends don't touch it either.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/2229250&from=rss
Update:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070712160114539
'We knows from "Get the Facts" days how that might work, but Massachusetts
might not. So if they don't hear countering information, I expect it might
seem to them like ODF and OpenXML (Ecma 376) are comparable.'
Related:
Microsoft pushes Office 2007 with 'try-before-you-buy'
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| Microsoft is shipping limited-use copies of Office 2007 with PCs in a
| try-before-you-buy scheme to seed the market with its latest suite and drive
| Windows server and client software sales.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/07/12/microsoft_office_2007_try_before_buy/
Crushed by the Wheels of Industry [Lockin and Greed]
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| "I'll just convert these back to the .DOC format the older versions
| use. That's most likely the version you have at school." I told her. But
| when I read the files in Word 2007 and eventually found the "Save As"
| entry in the new menu system I discovered to my horror it was grayed
| out. "This feature is only available in the full version of Office
| 2007." popped up a helpful little message. "Click here to purchase
| it." Getting increasingly worried, I decided to try a more desperate
| measure. I selected the whole file and looked for the "Copy and
| Paste" option. I might lose the formatting this way, but at least
| I'd get the text of the essay she'd written. Copy and paste were
| disabled in the same way, and with the same message.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html
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