MS Delays Office Subscription

must not be illegal in singapore or else you would get your ass cracked (pun intended or something)

I'd rather lease Windows XP then buy it. $10 a year'd be a lot cheaper then $300 upfront or however much it's going to cost.

What Microsoft wants and needs are two different things:

Microsoft WANTS to make as much money as possible, no matter what the cost is to the consumer (including personal freedoms).

Microsoft NEEDS a reality check. NOW.

$2.60?

Why spend even that much when its free everywhere on the web..

Well if Unreal/UT in D3D work under WINEX, then I imagine DNF will work just fine too.

I got Office XP Iso about a month ago? Kinda neet but once again not work $10+! Voice recognition sucks even after training but voice command isnt bad. Voice command, along with other features of XP such as WinWord.exe and Outlook.exe take up a LOT MORE MEMORY then O2k did. A LOT MORE. Outlook has some goods and bads. I cant seem to find how to do netfolders anymore (the pimp tool where you could share your calender etc with anyone else and it just sent it over email - not TOO secure however, it was pretty pimp) but better control of .pst files. Of course MS couldn't introduce a new Office w/o a new menu style, etc. Oh, Clipy is in XP despite what the website says, damn liars.

I have Office XP final. It shipped with new Dell's I ordered for the office. Of course, we're NOT migrating to Office XP as activation is an IT headache for a small business (<100). So, of course, I uninstalled without activating, brought a shrink wrapped copy home and put it on my home PC...in a similar fashion to the Geforce ULTRA under the hood ;)

Well, Office XP says that it is a subscription service that will expire, then diabling key features, although no timetable is given for subscription length.

Anyway, I haven't messed with it too much. I don't use outlook, and only word and excel occasionally. They seem to tun just as well as office '95.

I wil say that it screewed up my wife's japanese input-method-editor. Wife's from Japan and there's a free download from MS to allow typing in Japanese characters in an english OS install. XP hosed it, and reverting to Office 2k did not fix. The XP "IME"'s are apparently downloadable at official release, end of MAY. I know this won't affect many, but perhaps 1 or 2.

* BLOATWARE'D *

All this bullshit is exactly the reason why I'm sticking with Visual C++ 6. No .NET bullshit to bloat my programs!

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