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Someone will find the jailbreak... trumad Feb 2013 #1
They already have. EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #2
Greed drives it all. liberal N proud Feb 2013 #3
How fugging greedy are these people malaise Feb 2013 #6
They want it all and they want it now liberal N proud Feb 2013 #7
Office 2013 SUCKS BILL GATES ASS DainBramaged Feb 2013 #23
I bought 2010 last weekend before it became phylny Feb 2013 #31
There are alternatives bakpakr Feb 2013 #4
Actually office sucks but those suck even more. Warren Stupidity Feb 2013 #12
Not at all, and the few problems that do exist only exist in the M$ Office environment. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #34
No, they don't Prophet 451 Feb 2013 #38
Too much of a pita if you have to use M$ for work MH1 Feb 2013 #14
I use Libre bakpakr Feb 2013 #21
+1000 Daemonaquila Feb 2013 #15
WordPerfect Office csziggy Feb 2013 #29
I use Open Office on my non-work PC. It does everything I need it to do so far. nt stevenleser Feb 2013 #40
They've gotten rid of their "upgrade" pricing, too. CrispyQ Feb 2013 #5
I ditched MS Office for Open Office three years ago LeftInTX Feb 2013 #8
Yep. In the current version of Open Office, I can xfer docs between it and Word 2010 seemlessly stevenleser Feb 2013 #41
microsoft is doing one epic fail after another quinnox Feb 2013 #9
Yet this is PRECISELY the situation those who are routinely accused of "stealing" were Occulus Feb 2013 #26
It's been a problem among gamers for years now. white_wolf Feb 2013 #44
Genetically Modified Software (R) Berlum Feb 2013 #10
That is serious f'd up! I use OpenOffice and could care less what M$ does with the Office product. nc4bo Feb 2013 #11
microswift, of course, was practically founded on the independence of software from hardware. unblock Feb 2013 #13
WordPerfect and LibreOffice for me. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #16
I suspect Microsoft Office will not be the standard for much longer Bjorn Against Feb 2013 #17
I'd never pay for that sharp_stick Feb 2013 #18
I see a robust future for Open Office lpbk2713 Feb 2013 #19
Listen to this... smccarter Feb 2013 #20
Microsoft knows most people dont have the patience davidn3600 Feb 2013 #22
Get this. Even upgrading your processor or a memory and HDD change will Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #33
Fuck Microsoft. I still use Office 2003. forestpath Feb 2013 #24
even if open office or libre office sucks flobee1 Feb 2013 #25
Agreed TM99 Feb 2013 #27
The thing is, Open Office doesn't suck Downtown Hound Feb 2013 #37
I use Excel daily.. Hard Assets Feb 2013 #42
Open Office does have a spreadsheet program that is modeled after Excel Downtown Hound Feb 2013 #43
Cutting the throat of their own revenue stream and driving users to free alternatives.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #28
That is why one should use backup programs such as Acronis which copy the disk image for the backup still_one Feb 2013 #30
I'm still amazed that so many businesses still use that collection of garbage. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #32
I wonder if that counts swapping out a component as a new PC Posteritatis Feb 2013 #35
That kind of crap is why I quit microsoft 10 years ago bhikkhu Feb 2013 #36
Simple solution - Virtual Machine ChromeFoundry Feb 2013 #39
Our Microsoft account reps can't even lucidly explain Microsoft Licensing Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2013 #45
Guess I'll be sticking w/ 2010. Or better yet, back to OpenOffice Matariki Feb 2013 #46
I'm glad I got a copy of 2010 because I won't be buying 2013 davidpdx Feb 2013 #47
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