Don't be fooled by illegal copies of Microsoft Office selling for 49$
- 69$. These are not licensed copies and could end up costing you more
than $100,000 in copyright fines or willful infringement. Open Office
is a fully licensed alternative software to Microsoft Office. Get the
peace of mind of purchasing a licensed Office Suite for a quarter of
the price.
Illegal copies can range from simply giving you access to P2P file
sharing applications, copying original CD's onto a CD-R, or allowing
you to download an image file of a copied CD. These are all highly
illegal, and Microsoft is known for it's strict standards in combating
copyright infringers.
http://openofficego.blogspot.com/#

End users are never sued by Microsoft for anything like what you allege - all they get is disappointment that they did not actually get a free/low cost copy of Microsoft Office. Open Office is just as disappointing, if not more so.

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After furious head scratching, uuvpitfmklou******.com asked:

| Don't be fooled by illegal copies of Microsoft Office selling for 49$
| - 69$. These are not licensed copies and could end up costing you more
| than $100,000 in copyright fines or willful infringement. Open Office
| is a fully licensed alternative software to Microsoft Office. Get the
| peace of mind of purchasing a licensed Office Suite for a quarter of
| the price.
| Illegal copies can range from simply giving you access to P2P file
| sharing applications, copying original CD's onto a CD-R, or allowing
| you to download an image file of a copied CD. These are all highly
| illegal, and Microsoft is known for it's strict standards in combating
| copyright infringers.
| http://openofficego.blogspot.com/#

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote...
> . . . Open Office is just as disappointing, if not more so.

Maybe, but only for the much-mentioned 20% who use more than 20% of
various application's features. Mercifully it lacks an e-mail client,
so that's one huge advantage over MSO.

In my honst opinion. I think that people wouldnt do it so much if the
software wasnt so darn expenisve. (I have just bought a copy - man that cost
an arm and a leg)

Ever tried a full (not upgrade) version of Adobe Acrobat? How about Auto-Cad? And for the Mac enthusiast, a copy of Final Cut Pro?

Office is a steal at its current pricing - just look at Corel.

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After furious head scratching, Tom asked:

| In my honst opinion. I think that people wouldnt do it so much if the
| software wasnt so darn expenisve. (I have just bought a copy - man
| that cost an arm and a leg)

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote...
>Ever tried a full (not upgrade) version of Adobe Acrobat? How
>about Auto-Cad? And for the Mac enthusiast, a copy of Final Cut
>Pro?
>
>Office is a steal at its current pricing - just look at Corel.

Or OpenOffice.

As for Acrobat, GhostScript produces reasonable hardcopy output even
under Windows. Print to a file using a PostScript printer driver, then
load the resulting PostScript file into GhostScript and convert it to
all sorts of different file formats, including PDF. On Linux systems
it's relatively easy (with some programming knowledge) to automate
this.

For AutoCAD, nice example. High-end CAD originated on Unix
workstations, and all the sophisticated packages have Unix, Linux and
Windows versions. But getting back to the point, there are free CAD
packages. Maybe not up to AutoCAD's level, but offering a real price-
performance choice.

And Final Cut Pro - not too useful for Windows. But are there open
source video editing packages? Why, yes, there are. Whoda thunk?!

Is all the free stuff as polished as the commercial stuff? For the
most part, no. The OS itself may be the exception. However, is the
free stuff good enough for most home users who shouldn't be using H&S
to do office work at home? For the most part, yes.

Office is a steal at the subsidized prices MVPs pay. How much
credibility should us mere humans give to someone who pays less than
H&S for Pro Ultimate telling the rest of us how cheap the full retail
price is?

AutoCAD 2007 is selling for $3995 per seat. Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro is selling
$449. Single programs, not a suite.

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Microsoft MVP - Publisher

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Ever tried a full (not upgrade) version of Adobe Acrobat? How about
Auto-Cad? And for the Mac enthusiast, a copy of Final Cut Pro?

Office is a steal at its current pricing - just look at Corel.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Tom asked:

| In my honst opinion. I think that people wouldnt do it so much if the
| software wasnt so darn expenisve. (I have just bought a copy - man
| that cost an arm and a leg)