[ale] [OT] Microsoft Office 13 license

[Brian Stanaland]

I should have read the article first. It says the regular license is tied to
a single PC. Not the subscription plan. That can be installed and removed as
many times as needed.

Also, my family has been using Google Apps since it started. We like it.
It's great as a common repository we can all get to. But to do complicated
school papers you really need a desktop application. OpenOffice worked for
us for years until the kids got in High School and the papers got more
complicated and had to use specific templates.

--Brian


From:  Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>
Date:  Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:39 PM
To:  Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject:  Re: [ale] [OT] Microsoft Office 13 license

I bit the bullet and signed up. I'm running Office 2011 on my work MacBook
for personal use. We're a Google Apps shop. I put another copy on the living
room PC that the kids do their homework on.  I have another copy on my beat
up Thinkpad that currently running an unregistered copy of Windows 7. I'll
know in the couple of weeks if it truly is tied to one machine as this one
will be rebuilt when I get tired of playing with Windows.

I'll only have experience with this on a personal level but I'm happy with
it so far.

--Brian

From:  Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Date:  Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:45 PM
To:  <ale at ale.org>
Subject:  Re: [ale] [OT] Microsoft Office 13 license

  
 
On 02/20/2013 12:06 PM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
 
 
> Yep, quite a good buzz on M$ new scheme.
>  Maybe a good year for people/enterprises to learn more about Linux.
>  
>  
>  From 
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/microsoft-loses-yet-another-fanboy
> /4178?tag=nl.e011&s_cid=e011&ttag=e011
>  
>  
> *     Each license is tied to a Microsoft Live account
>  
> *     Only five licenses can be attached to a single account (we have clients
> that blow through ten MS Offices a week ‹ this could cause problems).
>  
> *     Each license will forever be tied to a single machine.
>  
>  
>   
>  
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 I have seen many negative comments about this new policy. It appears M$ is
trying to get people to use Office 365 subscription. Two issues I see with
this model are:
 
 1. Not everyone needs the a full office suite thus they are wasting money
for features they do not need or want. Many people do not know how to use a
RDMS like Access/Jet.
 
 2. What happens when your subscription is not renewed; one will still need
to access some of their files.
 
 Several comments indicate an extreme displeasure with M$ refusal to give
either a downloadable file or a physical disk.
 
--
Jay Lozier
jslozier at gmail.com
 
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