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HibbeeBoy:
Well I am not so sure about deploying shareware Corporate wide but I am going to check it out. I can't tell you how many times I have said to my boss "I don't know why it crashes, it just does." everytime he gets the old "fatal error" message. And the funny thing is, he sticks by M$ products. It's a strange argument you get with him when you point out how shitty it performs but he still backs them. He probably has his pension fund tied to M$. HEY ! Have I just uncovered a conspiricy here ? Are all IT managers promoting M$ because they have shares in it ?!!
I am going to continue with trying to get an answer about why Word doesn't work when called from the Start/Programs icon. If I am told to format the disk and reload, I will bombard Gates with junk mail using his own prepaid postcards.

Calum:
well 602ProOffice, is shareware, although, if you can do without the M$ access clone, you get a free lifelong licence, not sure about companies though,

Openoffice on the other hand is freeware, and opensource GPL too, this is a big difference, because companies can use it, and if you have somebody competent enough, you can modify the source code too, so long as you are prepared to distribute the new source for free also.

I hope you enjoy those, if you want an alternative to M$ word that costs and has full support and so on, then go to the Sun Microsystems site and get StarOffice, very similar to openoffice, except that it's made by Sun, so they charge for it, and they support it.

HibbeeBoy:
Cheers for the info. M$ has to be stopped !
Just been informed, reformat the hard drive, reinstall windows etc. Who knew ?!! This is an outrage !! There has to be a better way. They also said that the "Normal.dot" (Word Template) can cause problems. Oh yeah ? So why don't they f*****g fix it then !
BTW, you might want to warn people there's a picture of you on your web site. My 3 year old got a glimpse and now she won't sleep with the light off !  :D

Calum:
you knew the risks when you clicked the link!  ;)

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