New to Vista....

[Diana Brissenden]

Can anyone tell me how you would register the Microsoft Office so I can use
it with out going thru the product key. It came with my computer and I can't
seem to get around the register trail window.

Signed,
dbrissenden

 

[Circ Library Notices]

New computers have only a 60-day trial or pre-installed Office 2007. You
need to purchase it starting at $400, I believe.

King Library Access Services
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Malke]

New computers have only a 60-day trial or pre-installed Office 2007. You
need to purchase it starting at $400, I believe.

King Library Access Services
(e-mail address removed)

You're correct about the trial version, but you can purchase the Home &
Student edition for around $149, I believe. Or the OP can uninstall the
trial version and use OpenOffice, a free alternative.

http://www.openoffice.org


Malke

 

[LAB Enterprises]

Star office is also a great free alternative by Sun. It has some of the
excel-like features that openoffice lacks.

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

Lori

 

[Spanky deMonkey]

You're correct about the trial version, but you can purchase the Home &
Student edition for around $149, I believe. Or the OP can uninstall the
trial version and use OpenOffice, a free alternative.

http://www.openoffice.org

Yes, the OpenOffice version is free but is very limited if the user wants to
use macros or other features that MS Office has. OpenOffice is OK if you
just need the basics. If you need full features, Microsoft Office is the
way to go.

The student price is great.

 

[Falcon]

You're correct about the trial version, but you can purchase the Home &
Student edition for around $149, I believe. Or the OP can uninstall the
trial version and use OpenOffice, a free alternative.

Amazon will sell you Home and Student version for $119. My wife and
I each bought one along with Outlook for an extra $88.

 

[AlexB]

Must be as malwarious as Mozilla's "free" FireFox and Thunderbird. Why would
Sun disperse such a largess on the suffering humankind? There is no free
lunch, they must be up to something. One possible motivation is to make some
price conscious users dependent on it and then use it as leverage against MS
which they hate. It is very unlikely that Sun with no track record of
offering broad support to a large and evolving software sector will be able
to play more than a cat and mouse game.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

New computers have only a 60-day trial or pre-installed Office 2007.

That depends entirely on which computer you buy and what configuration
choices you make when you buy it. Many OEMs offer you a choice of
application software.

You
need to purchase it starting at $400, I believe.

If you want Microsoft Office, you need to purchase it. But there are
lots of other choices other than Microsoft Office, such as WordPerfect
Office, or even the free Open Office.

And if you do decide to buy Microsoft Office, its price doesn't have
to be anywhere near $400. For example, Amazon.com has Microsoft Office
Home and Student 2007 for $119.99.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

That depends entirely on which computer you buy and what configuration
choices you make when you buy it. Many OEMs offer you a choice of
application software.

Yeah, I got full Office Professional with my Thinkpad.

ss.

 

[bb]

You're correct about the trial version, but you can purchase the Home &
Student edition for around $149, I believe.

Until 30 April 07 would you believe $59.95?
http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

I first though that was yet another pirate site, but it appears to be real.
Even referenced by Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx

-bb

 

[John Smith]

Human kind is starting to suffer because of the worse malware ever made =
VISTA

Vista: where crap never ends (TM)

 

[DP]

Until 30 April 07 would you believe $59.95?
http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

I first though that was yet another pirate site, but it appears to be
real.
Even referenced by Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx

Some restrictions, though. http://www.theultimatesteal.com/eligibility2.asp

 

[ray]

Can anyone tell me how you would register the Microsoft Office so I can
use it with out going thru the product key. It came with my computer and
I can't seem to get around the register trail window.

Signed,
dbrissenden

You can either pay $$$$$ to MS or install OpenOffice.org. The latter will
probably do all you need - it is hightly compatible (some folks say it is
more compatible than MS Office, since that changes at every release) and
imports/exports MS Office files.

 

[Frank]

You can either pay $$$$$ to MS or install OpenOffice.org. The latter will
probably do all you need - it is hightly compatible (some folks say it is
more compatible than MS Office, since that changes at every release) and
imports/exports MS Office files.

Give it up ray...you know that's a lie!
Frank

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Star office is also a great free alternative by Sun. It has some of the
excel-like features that openoffice lacks.

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

Lori

Except for the fact that the latest Star Office is not free. Sun want $70
for it after the trial period is over..

 

[Bob]

The difference between Star Office and OpenOffice is insignificant.

 

[AlexB]

That's what I thought. There is no free lunch. You pay for it today or
tomorrow or they ripped you off as a pay for it yesterday already.

Sun is apparently using users of the "free" office as guinea pigs to figure
out how to grab a slice of market from MS which is perhaps a good thing for
the consumer if it is a fair game but people should be aware of it.

 

[DanS]

Sun is apparently using users of the "free" office as guinea pigs to
figure out how to grab a slice of market from MS which is perhaps a
good thing for the consumer if it is a fair game but people should be
aware of it.

It says right on the d/l page it is not free doofus.

'if it is a fair game' ? What is NOT fair about that ?

Millions of s/w offer a free trial period.

It's a lot more fair than MS when they introduced Internet Explorer, which
put several browser publishers virtually out of business.

It's MS's way, include in the next OS those small programs/utilities that
users buy from 3rd party developers.