Soldato
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Yer, 1 PC and 1 laptop, so thank you OCUK but I am sorted 
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER
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Damn bought 2007 Ultimate as a student last November, now I may have to get 2010 on a student deal if they do it.
you can get it for £40 becuase you are a student?? so you are getting a 90% discount??!?
It isn't at all, there's plenty that Word 2007 can do that OpenOffice can't.
but 98% of people will not need those features, the only really serious missing feature is the lack of docx and xlsx support in openoffice... and the STUPID default of saving in a stupid ODF format that word cannot read... totally mad they set that default.. (still it only takes 30s to change it)
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I just grabbed a student version of Pro Plus for about £45. 2 user license too. Amazing price all things considered, I don't know how MS can justify these over inflated prices to everyone else. Seems unfair.
Bet that's a relief.
Already got 2007 so going to see what's new.
I was going to wait until Office 2013, but Microsoft don't like 13 so I'll guess it'll be 2014.
Just that people don't know the other offers exist so these prices take advantage of the unfortunately lacking knowledge people!
be careful with this release there are still plenty of bugs, for example if using an exchange account and your machine has a biometric device, you will have problems if trying to use cashed exchange mode. In fact it crashed several times setting up an exchange mailbox even without cashed exchange mode.
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Those of us who complain that open office can't do everything that office can, are exactly those people that need the things openoffice can't do.
It's not that the other prices are inflated, it's that these are at a 90% discount. It's a generous service. Look at the student prices for people like Corel and Adobe - they don't give quite as steep a student discount and charge much more than microsoft does.
Missed off the all important 'support' word. I'm not sure what the sundown schedule is for Office, but it'll probably be either 5 or 10 years (at a guess, 5 for the Home versions and 10 for the rest). You don't get security updates after that.
Same, though I recently upgraded to '07 after an OS upgrade. Still prefer '03 but '07 is growing on me. Except Outlook '07 which is an odd hybrid.
OK, I'll bite as you seem particularly keen on trying to derail these threads...
No, it really, really isn't. Haven't used OO for quite some time admittedly (even though I do still have an up-to-date copy installed). It's a good piece of software, no doubt, and will do for most people - but then Works would do for most people too, but I also found it to be slow and had too many quirks.
In a business environment - particularly a Windows-centric one - it's Office all the way. That translates to home use as well because people understandably don't want to have to learn two office suites.
But you can stay on your Open Source Fanboy high horse if you like. I'm very much an open source fan too but everything has it's place. I'm biased though - closed-source pays my wages.
PS - I hate students just a little bit today. I paid full price for Office 2000, and XP, and 2003.
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No, it really, really isn't. Haven't used OO for quite some time admittedly (even though I do still have an up-to-date copy installed). It's a good piece of software, no doubt, and will do for most people - but then Works would do for most people too, but I also found it to be slow and had too many quirks.
In a business environment - particularly a Windows-centric one - it's Office all the way. That translates to home use as well because people understandably don't want to have to learn two office suites.
But you can stay on your Open Source Fanboy high horse if you like. I'm very much an open source fan too but everything has it's place. I'm biased though - closed-source pays my wages.
I already told you - i don't even use it. But it's clear to see that there's practically nothing that MSOffice offers that OpenOffice doesn't. OO even has the advantage of not using stupidly large file formats and doesn't charge you for an incremental update, hell, they don't charge you in the first place.
There's nothing to learn, it's pretty much an exact clone.