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russell.murphy:
Approx 4 years I bought a computer with a pre-installed version of Works 4. I bought MS Office 97 Professional Upgrade (Works being a legitimate program to upgrade from).

I have just had to buy a new computer which had Word 2000 pre-installed. This is not a legitimate program to install Office 97.

I phone MS Technical support for information of which files I need to copy from my old computer. I was told that the licence for Works 4 only allows me to have it on my old computer and I would have to buy an newer version of Office (costs about

iancom:
I Feel Your Pain. Of course you resent paying more money. You've legitimately bought their software and produced your own data from it, in good faith.

Now, you've changed your computer and they've changed their rules.

They will continue to do that.

Don't give them any more of a chance to screw you!

Sun's StarOffice will read any (with only a few very exceptional exceptions [I like redundancy]) MS Office '97 files and can even write out into those  formats so you can just as easily share files with your colleagues and friends.

Best thing is that they cannot turn round and suddenly demand more money from you because they have released the majority of their code into the open source community.

If you've got a broadband connection, have a go at http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/download.html

If not, and you've no other way of getting it, drop me a private message, and I can send you a CD. Strictly a one-time offer, Sun's conditions of license apply, nobody other than the original requestant need apply ...

voidmain:
Don't use 5.2, 6.0 is MUCH better.  And it's now fully into the open source as a different version numbering scheme.  That's at http://www.openoffice.org.  There is a Windows version and a *NIX version.

P.S. I guess it's not *fully* open source yet but close to it. Sun includes a couple of third party items in StartOffice 6 that isn't in OpenOffice (there is a list of differences (not many) on the OpenOffice web site).

[ February 15, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

iancom:
I use 6.0, but it's still beta.

I absolutely agree that it's better. What were they thinking of with that all-in-one interface?

However, I believe I would be remiss in recommending a beta-level product to a relatively inexperienced end-user who is looking for a business-quality product to replace MS Office?

My experiences with office suites are, however, atypical, since I...
 
(a) don't care about any data untrusted to anything other than vi
(b) frankly just don't care.

oh well...

Calum:
Also, try this free alternative to M$ office 2002 which i find to be very useful, and it's free to the home user.

[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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