Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

hi. I work in a state school, using ms windows and ms office...  i think I know the policy of 
microsoft.  I think they use a sort of (apparent) programmed obsolescence for the software.  I 
mean: periodically they add a new version with some changes in interface, macro programming, 
functions and file structure, which is installed on new computers. the new version is voluntarily 
incompatible with the previous ones.  It's a matter of marketing, not innovation.  where I work, 
people are always complaining that what works on a computer (files, macro etc..)  doesn't work on 
another.  the school, on the other way, doesn't want to spend money on new software licenses  (very 
expensive in italy).  so, why don't they change ?   they don't know enough about LibreOffice; they 
would need demonstrations or some training (some training is done, but always on ms office, I don't 
know which version...  are they trained every new version?), I guess...   I
 think microsoft did the same politics with charities and schools:  discounted prices (but they are 
still stealing money somehow...). other software producers (autodesk) are doing similar things...   
schools are good marketing targets... ideas?




On Friday, November 29, 2013 8:31 PM, John Meyer <john.l.meyer@gmail.com> wrote:
 
I didn't know we considered trialware "cunning".


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>wrote:

> Tom Davies wrote:
> > Also on newer machines MS have started running a cunning scheme
> > whereby people get to use a trial version of MS Office which then
> > stops working after a month or so.  In order to keep on using it
> > people have to pay an extra bit.
>
> That happened to a friend of mine about 3 years ago.  She's now running
> OpenOffice.
>
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