Re: OT MS Vista
- From: William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:28:07 +0100
It was on, or about, Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:40:41 +0200, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:18:51 +0100, William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It was on, or about, Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:20:35 +0200, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:56:53 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
<charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Martin" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:19:59 GMT, Pam Moore<NOSpam.moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:the
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:08:20 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
<charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks to a lightening strike I have had to replace one of our
machines,
verynew one has "Vista" (I expect I will get used to it in time!) The
point of this posting is just to say that while much of my old
third party software has gone on without a murmur the same was not
true of my
£6expensive MS Office (2000) and I thought people may like to know I
have solved the problem by changing to "Open Office" which so far
seems completely compatible in both directions with ms office and
only costs
download!!!
Very useful info Charlie. We shall all have to face up to Vista at
some point, no doubt. Good luck!
Although I see websites trying to sell it, you may like to know you
can
Open Office free.employees,
http://www.openoffice.org/product/
"OpenOffice.org is free software
* you may download OpenOffice.org completely free of any licence
fees * install it on as many PCs as you like * use it for any
purpose - private, educational, government and public
administration, commercial...
* pass on copies free of charge to family, friends, students,
etc."
You can download it from here
http://download.openoffice.org/
Now he tells me :~)
I am not grumbling it was very cheap really at £5.86
Ask for you money back. Whoever sold it to you had no right to sell
it.
It's perfectly legal.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html
Normally you are only charged for the cost of a CD, post & packing etc.
In that case why is the price of a Windows version substantially more
than the price of a Mac version in UK?
Ask M$, they bumped the UK prices for Vista up. Anyone using Windows in
the UK is paying almost *twice* the amount than someone buying it in the
US. http://news.com.com/Petition+demands+Vista+price+cuts+in
+U.K./2100-1016_3-6161710.html
I know of one corporate accountant who's challenged MS on this, & so far
they haven't answered him.
I paid EUR100 for a copy of SuSE Linux, somebody is posting that that is
free too.
If you want to download OpenSusE, a community driven version, it's free.
However the only support would be from newsgroups & forums.
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version
If you buy a boxed version, you're buying the official Novell/SuSE
release, & probably would get some support when you register the product.
http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/
I used SuSE Linux for 9 years, but changed to Kubuntu last year when
Novell signed a deal with MS.
.
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