Renting MS Office (next release), was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

Hi :)
I suspect a good place to start might be somewhere like
http://www.microsoft.com
but it might still only be written for a certain web-browser and might render badly on yours (or 
even block you).  I think they sorted it out now but for ages it just wouldn't work.
Regards from
Tom :)  






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> From: Chad Homan <choman@gmail.com>
> To: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com> 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 16:28
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their 
> office products instead
>
> I should be following this tread more closely.  But does anyone have links
> to any M$ sites
> that spell out the details of the "rentals"?  Also, what happens to people
> using older versions
> of office (like officeXP, etc).  Will they roll forward into this pricing
> model?  When does this
> take affect?
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> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On 02/10/12 19:38, Tim Deaton wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think we need to remove existing features.  But I DO think we
> > > need to focus on the "90% of average users".  Basically, I think LO should
> > > be making sure it can do everything that MS Office 97 (15-year-old
> > > software) could do, and do it just as well and just as easily.  If LO could
> > > do THAT, it would eat Microsoft's lunch.
> > >
> > >   Absolutely agree. Most of the "functionality" that MS has added to
> > Office 2007/2010 has been geared towards the corporate collaborative user,
> > which certainly in my experience (and I have to say my last corporate job
> > was over ten years ago so the playing field may well have changed in this
> > respect) wasn't a key factor in usage, and certainly has never been in the
> > SOHO sector.
> > I believe that Office 2013 is even more aimed at "cloud" and
> > "collaborative" usage - although it's highly probable that I shan't ever
> > find out!
> > One of the problems that I've come across is that my daughter uses LO and
> > "sends as" MS Office 97-2003 documents when emailing. It appears that her
> > recipients get gobbledy-gook so I need to find out what's happening there
> > because that shouldn't happen.
> > IMHO LO is every bit as good as MS Office 97, but then that wasn't a
> > particularly good iteration of MS Office! I think the aim should be to
> > match Office 2003, which still seems to be the current standard by which
> > Office suites are measured. (The very large international company my Wife
> > works for are still on 2003......)
> >
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