"Your BETA version of Microsoft Office 2007 has expired"

[Noema]

Back to OpenOffice for me.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Noema


Back to OpenOffice for me.

Good move.

 

[Bateluer]

I liked Office 2007 much more than Open Office myself.

If my employer didn't have an employee purchase program, I would have had to pay full retail price for it.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I liked Office 2007 much more than Open Office myself.
If my employer didn't have an employee purchase program, I would have had to pay full retail price for it.

Which I dont think you would.

I dont know any home user who has actually purchased a full copy of any MS Office suite. They either steal it, or get it at a discount for some reason or get the Academic Edition.
Nobody wants to pay 5 or 6 hundred bucks for it, no matter how useful.

 

[bruceb]

Yes, it is an overpriced software product. But then so is Adobe Photoshop CS2
and also Acrobat Professional ... and then there are the really costly programs
suc as AutoCad which if you want to update to the newest is always a high fee.

MS Office is a useful program, that with careful shopping for price can be a very
good deal. You get Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and a few other items I never use

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I liked Office 2007 much more than Open Office myself.
If my employer didn't have an employee purchase program, I would have had to pay full retail price for it.

Which I dont think you would.

I dont know any home user who has actually purchased a full copy of any MS Office suite. They either steal it, or get it at a discount for some reason or get the Academic Edition.
Nobody wants to pay 5 or 6 hundred bucks for it, no matter how useful.

Yeah most people wouldn't pay 5 or 6 hundred bucks for it *because nobody is that dumb*.

Most home users would want this $239 copy from bestbuy..
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01083&id=1162593933716

Or they would just pickup a copy of works. Corporations go the Office Pro route and get massive discounts through volume licensing.

It's not free, but try not to blow it out of proportion to make a point.

 

[Noema]

Well, I personally loved Office 2007, specially Word. Chockfull of features, I think the ribbon works like a charm, looks nice and loads up in a flash, to boot.

But the truth is that I don't give Office applications enough use to justify buying it...I might pick the Student edition down the road, but for now, OpenOffice will have to get the job done.

 

[Kur]

I miss the simple GUI the older office had, the new stuff with tabs and all that just makes it more frustrating for me to be honest.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Kur
I miss the simple GUI the older office had, the new stuff with tabs and all that just makes it more frustrating for me to be honest.

Windows 95 was frustrating to Windows 3.1 users too. It's mostly just unfamiliarity. Once used to it the ribbon is faster for most tasks. You'll also ramp up on it faster than you did the original menus (although that was a long time ago and few remember).

The ribbon came from some pretty cool research. The MS labs spend unbelievable resources figuring how humans interface with computers. Check this out for instance:
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-01.pdf
Similar studies were done with word processors to figure out how people use them and where they naturally go to find things they need. Not really something you're going to see the OpenOffice guys doing.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I liked Office 2007 much more than Open Office myself.
If my employer didn't have an employee purchase program, I would have had to pay full retail price for it.

Which I dont think you would.

I dont know any home user who has actually purchased a full copy of any MS Office suite. They either steal it, or get it at a discount for some reason or get the Academic Edition.
Nobody wants to pay 5 or 6 hundred bucks for it, no matter how useful.

Yeah most people wouldn't pay 5 or 6 hundred bucks for it *because nobody is that dumb*.
Most home users would want this $239 copy from bestbuy..
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01083&id=1162593933716
Or they would just pickup a copy of works. Corporations go the Office Pro route and get massive discounts through volume licensing.
It's not free, but try not to blow it out of proportion to make a point.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01083&id=1162594204637

1. Pull your head out of your ass.
2. Try not to suck too much dick, the sperm is obviously damaging your brain.
3. Remember this is not World of Warcraft, you are not WOWOMGLOLERZLEETHAXORS just because you can act like a little bitch to someone who isnt standing right in front of you.
4. Go back to class, those fingerpaints wont get cleaned up by themselves.
5. Tell teacher you have spent plenty of time on the internet and need a book instead.

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Too rude. Too crude. Two weeks elsewhere.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[Smilin]

Buh-Bye

 

[CrystalBay]

quote above

I bought small business upgrade, decent price.. I like Publisher, plus I can write it off...

 

[quikah]

Actually, I think most home users would be fine with Office Home and Student edition, which is $150, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. The only catch is that it is only licensed for non-commercial use. (this is not the academic version, anyone can buy it despite the name)

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Buh-Bye

LOL that one was easy to call

 

[Bateluer]

I don't even understand what shorty was so upset about. Smilin was probably dead right about that 239 dollar MS Office product being common about consumers.

Not everyone can get the academic version or employee purchase, etc.

 

[CrystalBay]

maybe he needs to have write offs

 

[Molondo]

If i have money to buy toys (360 and PS3), i think i wouldn't mind spending same amount for office. Its pretty damn useful.

 

[stash]

So wait, did the OP think s/he would be able to run a beta product indefinitely?

 

[Canai]

I just went to their launch event and got a free copy of office 2007 pro

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: stash
So wait, did the OP think s/he would be able to run a beta product indefinitely?

Not at all!...I am well aware that it was BETA software and that it'd would expire sometime early 2007 I installed it with testing purposes, and even submitted a couple of bugs (or at least what I thought were bugs )

It's just that yesterday I found out that it had expired and I was a little blue about it, since I do like Office 2007 and now I'll have to buy it. And I was just sharing my sadness with my fellow AT'ers.

Like I said: I'll probably buy it eventually, I don't think my limited usage justifies buying it, and hence, I'll be using OpenOffice and Abiword in the foreseeable future.

That was the purpose of this thread. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[nsafreak]

Yeah I wish I didn't have to downgrade from Office 2007 to 2003 but I just couldn't fit it into my software budget atm. At first I started off hating Outlook but it's grown on me over the years and I just haven't found another email client that I really like. I tried ThunderBird, Pegasus and a few other clients and they just didn't work quite the way that I liked Outlook working.

 

[Jaxidian]

heh, I've had Office 2007 Pro Trial installed on practically every one of my computers. It's good for like 4 months before it expires. I usually reformat my pcs about 2-3 times a year. So I love Office 2007!

 

[bcterps]

I'm looking forward to being a student again in August, so I can pick up some new software for "cheap". I think I'm still using Office XP at home and Office 2002 at work.

 

[Smilin]

Hey quick tip for those running Office 2007 on Vista.

Open Word, hit the "file" jewel, hit the "word options" button.
Select your color scheme from the dropdown.

I'm running Vista with a graphite theme so Black looks pimp.

Note: This changes the color scheme for all of Office, including Outlook.

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Hey quick tip for those running Office 2007 on Vista.

Open Word, hit the "file" jewel, hit the "word options" button.
Select your color scheme from the dropdown.

I'm running Vista with a graphite theme so Black looks pimp.

Note: This changes the color scheme for all of Office, including Outlook.

OMG, thank you! That baby blue default scheme was driving me batty. BTW, this works with WinXP as well.