From: Man-wai Chang on
> I use Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Word now and then. I'm
> just an elderly home user who uses the products now and then.
> BTW, if I need to put the software on my home laptop and possibly a
> second PC, it's going to cost the earth.
> Maybe users should stick with Office 2007. It's much cheaper.
> Or maybe the group can recommend a new strategy using Open Office and so
> forth?

I doubt any Fortune 500 companies would listen to these... Micro$oft
is/was their appointed software company!

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From: Caesar Romano on
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:39:27 +0800, Man-wai Chang
<toylet.toylet(a)gmail.com> wrote Re Re: Microsoft Office 2010:

>> I use Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Word now and then. I'm
>> just an elderly home user who uses the products now and then.
>> BTW, if I need to put the software on my home laptop and possibly a
>> second PC, it's going to cost the earth.
>> Maybe users should stick with Office 2007. It's much cheaper.
>> Or maybe the group can recommend a new strategy using Open Office and so
>> forth?
>
>I doubt any Fortune 500 companies would listen to these... Micro$oft
>is/was their appointed software company!

Well, at one time the saying in the data processing industry was that
"...no one gets fired for recommending IBM..." Those days are ended
and someday MS days as top dog will be ended too.
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From: Man-wai Chang on
> Well, at one time the saying in the data processing industry was that
> "...no one gets fired for recommending IBM..." Those days are ended
> and someday MS days as top dog will be ended too.

IBM mainframes are the backbone of this planet's finance & insurance
industries. Who else could bet their lives to serve them? :)

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From: Saxman on
On 22/06/2010 13:11, Yrrah wrote:

> Off topic here. There are M$ Office newsgroups.
>
> Yrrah

You're too busy being a netcop. Re-read my post. I was seeking some
freeware alternatives. I did mention OpenOffice in my post as well.

What do you recommend instead of slagging everbody off?

From: Mike Easter on
Yrrah wrote:

> Off topic here. There are M$ Office newsgroups.

You missed the freeware preamble and question.

> Saxman

>> I use Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Word now and then. I'm
>> just an elderly home user who uses the products now and then.


>> Or maybe the group can recommend a new strategy using Open Office and so
>> forth?


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