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Friday, December 01 2006

Vole shafts Brits with Office pricing  by Matthew I at 19:42

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A little bit off the beaten track with this one, but it would seem that us brits are going to be shafted by Microsoft when it comes to buying Microsoft Office 2007. It seems that we are going to be paying up to 70% more than our cousins across the atlantic. Thats quite a price hike if you ask me and although im probably not going to buy it personally, its something I think we can all be a bit upset about

Thanks the INQUIRER
Tags: Microsoft
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hobgoblin
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01 December 2006 19:45
just wrong
Stan
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01 December 2006 20:04
Once again we pay far more, well I am pretty sure they will just find that no one buys it.
Mani
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01 December 2006 20:10
not at that price
SENT
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01 December 2006 21:35
Office 2007 is really productive compared to 2003 especially for me as ICT manager in a finance company

ill just have to buy it on the net from america is this is perfectly legal silly microsoft
Mani
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01 December 2006 21:52
We have an action pack at work, so Ill have it there anyway. Just won;t buy it for home.

Been using the beta since October anyway, it's cool but as much of an upgrade as they'd have u believe.
Re0sLess
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01 December 2006 22:35
The only people this will hert is the small none IT buisnesses when thye get new PCs, sucks tho
ig88
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01 December 2006 23:43
well they can charge whatever they want for anything, wether people buy it or not is a different story
malis
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02 December 2006 00:50
I've switched to Open Office for a while now, quite enough for me at home.
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02 December 2006 11:00
IMO there are great changed programs and unchanged and ruined apps in 2007 over 2003

outlook and excel are much improved word visio etc.. are hardly different and access and infopath are ruined

once you factor in the massive cost of training all your staff on the totally new interfaces of these products the coost in time alone makes it not a viable option in a work place for all but the most techy of staff. At my work only the IT staff and a select few others are getting 2007 the rest still cant use 2003.

this training cost should of been factored in to the pricing and it should be much cheaper

Silly silly microsoft


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