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Office Genuine Disadvantage (none / 0) (#19)
by James Bond on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 08:15:33 PM PDT

So Microsoft is going to release Office Genuine Advantage Notifications to the world of Office users soon, disguising itself as a "critical" security update just as the case of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications. Undoubtedly it will make mistakes like WGA and fingers legitimate users as pirates, locking out their legitimate copies of Office.

The moment I heard that Microsoft added activation to Office XP I knew it was time to stay away from Office. I still had a copy of Office 2000 but I almost never used it now. And I have not purchased Office 2003 and will never purchase Office 2007 and future versions of Office. I use OpenOffice and occasionally WordPerfect now.

Guys, if possible, consider switching away from Microsoft Office. That is what I have done, anyway.



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