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Re: Open Office Base

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 07 Oct 20 4:47 PM | 22 view(s)
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De,
I believe everything you stated is true.

The last time I thought about buying Microsoft Office, and I
thought I wanted it mostly for Access . . . It looked like I
was going to have to download it, and Microsoft was pushing
to lease it rather my buying and owning my copy of it.

I was already using Open Office and other than my Access
database everything I wanted to do I could do with Open
Office.

In the last year or two I learned enough about Linux that
I could abandon Microsoft altogether - except for my
Database. And I am really fond of it. Fortunately I
have an extra XP based machine with an OLD Microsoft Office
and everything works smoothly for doing what I do with it.

And now I have the time to work with Base and learn what
I might have to do to port my database over to Linux.

Zim.




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Re: Open Office Base
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 07 Oct 20 12:47 AM 		Msg. 07038 of 60014

Zimbler0:

Re: “I don't see any reason why Office 2007 should stop working. XP still works” I don't know if it will ever stop working. Online, I was reading complaints from people who were getting the message and saying that they were so abundant as to make the program unusable. One person said he couldn't even get Office to start. But then he said something to the effect of, "Hey I just tried again and this time it did start." That leads me to believe that with Office 2007, Microsoft is going to get increasingly obnoxious about the package being "retired." But from the beginning, I said that I don't know if it ever actually becomes unusable.

Older versions of Office may not have the hooks Microsoft needs to pull that sort of crap on its users. I do know that I ran into an issue with Office 2010 after it took Amazon three attempts to deliver the laptop computer I'd bough\t. I installed Office 2010 on the first two. The third told me that I had exceeded my license quota (did you know there was such a thing??) and could no longer install the package. That's the one I described here on Pope. micro saved me that time… It's nice to have friends - even friends I've never met! Maybe one day. Smile





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