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1 million? Better to give me that![ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by James Bond on Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 06:23:49 PM PDT

Why on Earth should that company pay that amount of money for licenses they already have? Sounds ridiculuous! And the old Office licenses are voided!! Simply unacceptable!

Please, do not let Microsoft grab your money that way! Explore alternatives, and most important, do not "upgrade" to Windows Vista and Office 2007!

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That's straightforward[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by ObviousTroll on Sat Dec 23, 2006 at 09:41:21 PM PDT

Fear of litigation. Read the article again - the company knew that a small percentage of its copies of Office didn't have valid licenses and that many others could be made to appear invalid by a competent lawyer. So, if the article is accurate, Microsoft basically extorted protection money out of them.

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You are probably correct.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by James Bond on Mon Dec 25, 2006 at 09:25:19 PM PDT

So that company allows Microsoft to extort money from it in the name of protecting against ligitation. Are these companies going to stand this again and again. If they continue to stick with Microsoft, this is going to repeat itself.

Have they considered other alternatives? Why do they allow Microsoft to continue to grab money from them? No wonder why Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are so rich!

Personally, I won't hand over any of my money to Microsoft again. No Vista, no Office 2007, no Zune, no more new Microsoft products for me.

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I'll Second That ...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by In my humble opinion on Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 05:33:25 PM PDT

No more M$ product upgrades for me either. I'm installing ONLY OpenOffice on the home PC for my kids. While they will probably learn on MS products at school, their homework assignments will be completed using OpenOffice. I'll install Linux on the next (faster) home PC so they will be motivated to learn that too. Once they are "multi-lingual" they can decide for themselves if they want to pay for M$ products. Given the M$ trend towards increasing DRM functionality in their products, I suspect it will be an easy decision.

Remember the CSNY song Teach your Children Well ? This is an important lesson to pass along.

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while I feel for the vicitmized company[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by seeRpea on Mon Dec 25, 2006 at 06:29:51 PM PDT

I would sort of look forward to getting a visitation threat from m$. It would be a great opportunity to show my boss how we could switch 85% of our company work from m$Office to OpenOffice or the WordPerfect Suite and from NT to a Linux solution.

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"Looking forward"[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by Lazlo Nibble on Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 06:09:17 PM PDT

Except that if you didn't have all your licensing in order BEFORE Microsoft showed up, NOT buying new MS licenses for everything would likely trigger legal action against your company.  OpenOffice/Linux doesn't help in that case, unless you make the switch well before Microsoft comes sniffing around.

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Alternatives[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#7)
by BigManTate on Wed Jan 03, 2007 at 09:12:07 AM PDT

1) Mozilla Firefox is an excellent alternative to Internet Exploder. ;)

2) Open Office opens every M$ Office document, spreadsheet & presentation I've ever tried. I have not tried opening a document created in Office 2007. You can also save a document with the doc/xls/ppt extensions in Open Office.

Allen Tate
www.AllenTateComputing.com
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Just say no[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by robdarko on Wed Jan 03, 2007 at 03:13:39 PM PDT

Why even let them in the door? Tell them thanks for the offer, but you are a little busy right now.

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