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
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"
wrote:
"Martin" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:19:59 GMT, Pam Moore
wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:08:20 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:
Thanks to a lightening strike I have had to replace one of our
machines,
the
new 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
very
expensive 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
£6
!!!
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
download
Open Office free.
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,
employees,
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...+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.