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It's begun... I can only get Office XP on new systems from Dell.

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Stark

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Just went to order 6 new systems, and I can no longer get Office 2000. For all those who say "if you don't like XP and it's activation scheme, don't buy it" welcome to the real world. :|

When the guy giving you a hernia check tells you to cough, you better cough. Such is life with the MS monopoly.
 
I can do the bulk license and downgrade to 2000, but I have to buy XP whether I like it or not.

Or not.
 
Did you think that this would not happen. Not top mention that you cannot buy the pieces of Office you have to buy them all.
 
I have Office XP cause it came with a system that our company ordered. Office XP is buggy and uses up more CPU resources when I use it so I uninstalled it and loaded Office 2000.

Edit: Accidently wrote WinXP instead of OfficeXP.
 
Stark,

I am guess I am missing the part about having no choice. If you dont like XP, dont buy it. You could always buy corel office or something.
 
you can always tell Dell not to load Office for you. and did even bother to try Office XP? i been using it for awhile now, much nicer than office 2000
 
Just buy open licenses. They're backwards compatible and if you ever decide that you want to upgrade to XP then it doesn't cost you anything.

KingHam
 
Actually Stark we had a BIG BLOW here at my university. We called microsoft since all the Dell systems are coming with Office XP. Microsoft says that the XP license DOES NOT cover a downgrade to Office 2000.

Jim
 


<< I have XP cause it came with a system that our company ordered. WinXP is buggy and uses up more CPU resources when I use it so I uninstalled it and loaded Office 2000. >>



There is a big difference between WinXP and Office XP.
 
Did MS change the file format with XP? Just curious.

I know that the file format for Excel and Word changed when MS came out with Office 97. Some of our computers here at work had 97 and some had the old 95. After a few people started saving documents as 97 files, we decided that it would be best to upgrade. Yes, we could always save backwards each time we saved a document, but it was a royal pain.

Basically, MS was using the file format change to force people to upgrade. Are they doing it again? I haven't messed with XP enough yet to be able to tell.

 
XP stuff is not that bad. The only part of WPA that I hate is the, &quot;if you change more than three pieces of hardware in your system, ytou will have to re-activate&quot;

I think that activation is just something that software vendors will use. For those of you that complain:

1)Netware has required activation on all upgrades since version 3.12 (first I saw)
2)Callagra Callware (corporate voicmail) hardware keys generated off Nic, a phonecall is needed.

See, there are other companies doing just that...
 
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