WindowsXP Licensing

Wonderful buisnes tactics!

You know, I'm beginning to wonder if all this bullshit monopolistic software crap (I mean, moreso than usual... yes, I happen to think this is extreme even for Microsoft) has anything with Bill Gates stepping down from CEO to be head of software development.

Hmmmmm... how long has it been since he stepped down anyway? Few months? When was XP announced?

Normally I'm against the courts stepping into economic matters, but this is the kind of shit that really needs to stop. Grrr.

The shit will hit the fan when you load the newest version of Office and it doesnt open office 97 docs anymore :-)

*would do this if he wanted to force ppl to upgrade*

Is this the office upgrade that makes that witty little paperclip funnay?

Maybe this will finally get all those obstinate NT4 users to switch to Win2K. Sure, it's a pretty brutish way to do it, but that's the entire principle behind the electrified cattle prod.

he.

anyone noticed it says "WIndows XP licensing" in the title while the topic is Office XP? What´s up with that? Maarten, you smoked that shit again.

Admit it! ;-)

http://wwwwswest.sun.com/products/staroffice/

Star Office. Not as slick as MS Office but good enough for 98% of the people here who use it mostly for homework and writing letters and making flyers for the kegger Saturday night. For that matter MS Works is good enough for most people. But Works won't open Excel spreadsheets on purpose because the greedy bastards want you to pay the tax first. Star Office opens Excel just fine. But if you send .xls files back and forth from the machice with Star Office and a machine with Excel you'll get funny messages with some vague warning about file formats from Excel. Microsoft has been doing this for years. Weak-minded people don't like those messages and are frightened by them so they go out about buy MS Office just to make them go away.

The greed of Microsoft is astounding. Why don't they just go and enjoy their billions and be benevolent dictators. But it's never enough. And things like trying to force customer to pay re-occurring liscense fees instead of allowing them to own the software outright, will fuel the incentive to develope for Linux.

Ha! Like we really paid for it in the first place...