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Question of the Day: How do you normally pay for purchases in stores?
Easy terms, cut price for MS Office
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Frikkenator
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Lol... there goes open office 
Lol... there goes open office
I don't think so. Open Office is free, whereas this costs R800 each and every year. If you stop paying, you don't have access to any of your documents any more. That kinda sucks
Frikkenator
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I don't think so. Open Office is free, whereas this costs R800 each and every year. If you stop paying, you don't have access to any of your documents any more. That kinda sucks
True true, but most people are still way more comfortable with MS Office. The only pro to open office vs MS office is that it's free, but now, MS Office is REALLY very affordable, i'd put money on the table that people would rather fork out R800/year than to use open office which they are not used to.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
"Capitalism succeeds best when helping the poor."
Something along those lines anyways.
Something along those lines anyways.
the thing that really eats my tits is that people who pirate are always seen as the bad guys and gals. fair enough, they are. but if a music cd would cost R100 and not R180, and MS Windows would cost a couple of hundred and not a couple of thousand, i think more and more people would start buying the original . what better then to actually have a manual for your game and the cover!!!
Frikkenator
Expert Member
You see, that is unfortunately BS.
Google and open office isn't bad, but it is not a patch against MS office. The integration between the office components is unsurpassed in all ways possible and most big corporates use MS Office because they can have line of business applications written right on top of Office.
You can give MS flack for most of their products, but if there are two products that stand out from the rest, it is Office and Visual Studio. No other office suite can touch MS Office and no IDE can touch VS. It might be friggin expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Frikkenator
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How nice, Microsoft is looking at ways of subsidizing M$ Orifice to run on my Linux desktop PC *not*.
I think I can manage to continue using OpenOffice, in fact I'm sure I can.
I think I can manage to continue using OpenOffice, in fact I'm sure I can.
Moederloos
Honorary Master
Africa needs its own zone.
DVD zones are designed for different release times and pricing models.
Africa needs an ultra cheap pricing model - why we are lumped together with Europe god alone knows.
DVD zones are designed for different release times and pricing models.
Africa needs an ultra cheap pricing model - why we are lumped together with Europe god alone knows.
Frikkenator
Expert Member
I'm sure you can. I'm talking about corporates and companies, who actually use all of office's features, not just quickly typing a doc or doing a spreadsheet.
They average user (i.e. you) have no idea what office is actually capable of. I'm a developer in an Information Worker unit, which means I deal with Office/SharePoint server everyday. The amount of business value that lies within the office product range is so huge it will blow your mind.
I'm not denying that open office is perfect for a home user, as it is free and very functional for what a home user needs to do with it.
But the real money for M$ lies in businesses, and they understand the value of office.
I happen to be a developer that has in the past spent a lot of time integrating M$ Office into every little nook & cranny, so you haven't blown my mind but thank you for the insult, what might blow your mind is that one can integrate OpenOffice into business systems, and heck one can even download the source for OpenOffice and change it.
Not everything begins and ends inside a shrink-wrapped Microsoft box.
Frikkenator
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Lol... What I meant by average user is, like I said someone quickly typing a doc or doing a spreadsheet. That means most home users, including me. No offence intended.
I do know that OO has some integration and that it is open source. But being a developer you probably understand the risk involved if you were to go make changes to the core source code to make it integrate with something? You will have to perform end to end testing on the entire application again to make sure your changes didn't break something down the line.
I can't see how (after integrating M$ office so much) you can even still defend open office for this specific scenario. I too have worked with OO and the risk of destabilizing the entire thing is just way to high.
I do agree with your "Not everything begins and ends inside a shrink-wrapped Microsoft box" statement though.
With any s/w there is the risk of a change breaking something else, in my experience, this happens too often with Microsoft s/w, which is one of the reasons I abandoned the well trodden Micosoft s/w path some time back - there are advantages and disadvantages to OSS, but in my case the advantages of OSS outweigh the disadvantages.
I don't have anything against those that continue down the Microsoft path, that is a decision they must live with.
I don't have anything against those that continue down the Microsoft path, that is a decision they must live with.
Frikkenator
Expert Member
MS too exspensive
Wow MS Office can do (and do) wonders. Most users, do not even use 20% of that wonders. Some one else here said there would be far more leagals if it was more affordable. MS is NOT affordable, even if you get what you pay for!! For most people OO will do, and do that for free.
Like I said before, maybe it is just my imagination, but MS is not doing as well with Vista and maybe even office as what they hoped for.
How will this lease work? Do I sell (I do OEM and DSP) and MS collect and control. So If the customer skips a payment, MS stop use, customer pay MS enables ???? Any ideas.
Wow MS Office can do (and do) wonders. Most users, do not even use 20% of that wonders. Some one else here said there would be far more leagals if it was more affordable. MS is NOT affordable, even if you get what you pay for!! For most people OO will do, and do that for free.
Like I said before, maybe it is just my imagination, but MS is not doing as well with Vista and maybe even office as what they hoped for.
How will this lease work? Do I sell (I do OEM and DSP) and MS collect and control. So If the customer skips a payment, MS stop use, customer pay MS enables ???? Any ideas.