Need a Source for Inexpensive MS Office

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Don Nelson

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Got a new computer and it's the accursed Windows XP platform. I need to get a copy of the latest edition of MS Office. I'd be grateful if anyone could point me toward a place that charges less, versus more, for a copy of it.

Thanks.

Don
 
Have a look at openoffice.org I think. Open Office is a Microsoft compatible, free download. I downloaded an early version but didn't play with it too much. Worth a look if it's free and is compatible.

I still use Office 97. :p
 
Check eBay too. I do hope you're not planning on buying a ripped copy.

JD
 
Illegaly copied.

Doesn't work very well with later versions, due to product activaition

I'd second OpenOffice. Use it at home here, use Office on various jobsites. Never had any problems with the more recent OpenOffice editions. A few in the Pre Open Office days, but most of those bugs have been worked out.

Definitely worth the free price. :)
 
StarOffice is simply a pay version
of OpenOffice for companys.

And a "ripped" version of OfficeXP
works fine it's the new .net that
doesn't work. There easy to find if
you know where to look and cost about
what software should, FREE!!
GNU for every!

OpenOffice is a better idea though :)
 
You can always blow away XP and reinstall 98 or whatever you prefer! :D
 
Bruise...wasn't v3.12 the stable one? Tryin' to palm off shoddy goods, eh? ;)
 
3.12 was Chinese only, to best of my memory. Can still download it from MSDN if ya want. ;)

Course, have to pay for your subscription to do that.
 
Not much experience with the different operating systems, just MS ME on my first computer and now the XP version.
I think the XP beats the livin crap outta the ME as the ME was always crashing or playing some other headgame and before that I was on a WebTV and it kept crashing the HI Forum.

So, why doesn't anyone like the MS XP version?:confused:
 
Windows XP is the best workstation operating System MIcrosoft has released to date, in my mind.

More stable(antyhing can crash, including macOS or LInux), better memory management, more compatible than 2000, better battery life on laptops, plays games faster than 2000, the list goes on and on. I won't runa nything less than XP on my systems presonally.
 
Bad karma...it was a cockroach in it's past life. ;)
 
I put XP on both my computers as its so much more efficent in every way than the windows 98 I was used to!

I dont think Ive had 1 crash yet in 6 months! It Used to be evry week with 98!

Guess people sometimes take a little time to get used to change! Took me about a week!

XP Works!

Spiral :D
 
1. I initially had doubts about XP, but I find it just as solid as Win2K.

2. Open office, if the same as Star Office, is a good product. It reads and writes MSOffice docs/spreadsheets etc. Don't hesitate: you can't do better for the price.
 
I had Win ME at home and it was a real dog. Crashed constantly. I now run Win 2k and it is rock solid. We use it at work, also Win XP. No problems with either system.

Semp
 
Just to put another note in for openoffice here, will add the caveat that I've only used the word processor and the spreadsheet, haven't played around with the other parts of the program.

BUt Have my budget worked out on there, and a budget forecast to get some idea of when I'd have school loans paid off($56K in debt makes ya a bit depressed about money, plus I had free time). Heck, I like openoffice, jsut because it let me see I'd have those loans paid off in half the 10 years I'm supposed to have to pay them off. Not that Openoffice had anything to do with that. :) Jsut let me see it.
 
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