Prepaid Office to go

Clever

Fundamentally, it’s all about the cost of the software. If you can spread that cost, and pay a smaller amount on a quarterly basis, psychologically it seems a lot easier to accept.”

And you WILL get people going for the pre-paid deal, and not use it. The selling will depent on how smooth the sales person is, and how informed the buyer is. Wonder if MS is going to devise a pay-per-utilisation scheme, in that case they will not make money with office.

MS is over priced!!

OK so (I) the small guy is excluded, great. See how I push OO now.:p
 
MS is moving to the right direction, @ the moment I am forced to go to an internet cafe to use MS Office to practise for ICDL. I prefer OpenOffice, I wont buy MS Office but I wouldnt mind renting it for one or two days when I need it like now as I am forced to the MS version of the ICDL TEST. If the test centres can cater for OpenOffice I wont need MS Office.
 
Pretty pointless to me!
I'm still a big believer in pay-as-you-use.

Why should a home user who uses Excel twice a day pay the same as a business that not only uses it many more times a day, but also uses it to generate income?

Unless MS figure this out, home uses and small businesses will still pirate software.
 
OpenOffice.org is not as full-featured as Office, but it is a competent alternative for basic word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tasks.
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Without having a major objection to the general tone of the article, I would just like to point out that the set of criteria used for deciding the degree of features is a subjective one. If you come from a Windows/Office background, the yardstick you might use to judge alternative packages is based on what your experience with Office has determined as a "standard".
Someone with coming from an OOo background might feel the same about using MS Office the first time. IMHO the most compelling evidence of this is would be:
This list is by no means comprehensive, these are just off the top of my head.

Most objections surrounding the uptake of OOo stem from compatibility issues with MS Office (VBA macros and document formats). These are deal-breakers for enterprise users with legacy dependencies. (The irony is that these dependencies may be undermined with every major update to MS Office). This is nothing other than product lock-in, as all arguments against adopting OOo are self-sustained by these legacy dependencies. VBA support in OOo is improving and the Open Document Format (ODF) may hold the solution to cross-package document formatting problems. MS appears to have accepted ODF in principle (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3618176), but initiatives that are deemed as threats to their hold on large organisations are experiencing resistance from MS http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9022878)
 
Masah said:
MS is moving to the right direction, @ the moment I am forced to go to an internet cafe to use MS Office to practise for ICDL. I prefer OpenOffice, I wont buy MS Office but I wouldnt mind renting it for one or two days when I need it like now as I am forced to the MS version of the ICDL TEST. If the test centres can cater for OpenOffice I wont need MS Office.
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ICDL :p LOL
If you can post here, you've passed already.
 
Bah, charging R3000 for Office?!?!?!? When open office is free and suitable for home users (even advanced ones) why would and home user even consider buying it, most would just stick with older versions of office anyway. Microsoft moan about poor sales due to piracy, i say it's poor sales because a) it too darn expensive b) why change from good old xp? really, there is nothing new in the next microsoft products worth having that isnt working great right now
 
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