[ale] [OT] Microsoft Office 13 license

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>wrote:

> 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.
>

I found that nearly all M$ .doc templates worked fine in OOo as long as the
liberation font set was loaded. Without that specific font set, all spacing
and alignment was always crap.

That said, I've seen M$ templates generated on a Winblows system that were
crap on a Mac with Word. I used those examples to indicate to the school
why requiring a specific template outside of a web form was a bad idea. No,
they didn't understand or change but they allowed a similar looking paper
from a different system. Whenever a .doc was the required format, my kids
would save as MS word 2003 .doc in OOo and the teacher never knew any
different.

>
> --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 Lozierjslozier at gmail.com
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