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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 23 October 2003, 01:46

Title: M$ Tries to force companies to upgrade to Office 2003
Post by: Xeen on 23 October 2003, 01:46
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=7&u=/washpost/20031022/tc_washpost/a61510_2003oct21&sid=96168965 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=7&u=/washpost/20031022/tc_washpost/a61510_2003oct21&sid=96168965)

What a bunch of idiots:

 
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It's a strange situation Microsoft Corp. finds itself in: To convince customers that they need to buy the latest version of its Office business software


 
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one technique Microsoft is employing to nudge the transition this time around is by discontinuing support of an older version of the software suite, Office 97.


And everybody wonders why MS is evil! Office 97 can still be wonderful for tons of people. I know from experience. I always install Office 97 on machines that I don't want to bloat with all the stuff Office 2000 and XP do to the system. Honestly, there is NOTHING in Office 2000, XP, or 2003 that Office 97 isn't good for. MS shouldnt have the right to fuck their customers like that.

 
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"The most attractive features could require buying another piece of software to get the full value."


Any more proof required of MS scratching software vendors' backs?
Title: M$ Tries to force companies to upgrade to Office 2003
Post by: solarismka on 23 October 2003, 21:32
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Originally posted by xeen:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=7&u=/washpost/20031022/tc_washpost/a61510_2003oct21&si d=96168965 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=7&u=/washpost/20031022/tc_washpost/a61510_2003oct21&sid=96168965)

What a bunch of idiots:

 

Any more proof required of MS scratching software vendors' backs?



Agreed!  I found office 97 for a long time to be fine, untill I discovered OO ;)
Title: M$ Tries to force companies to upgrade to Office 2003
Post by: suselinux on 23 October 2003, 11:23
What the hell kind of support do you need for an office suite?
Title: M$ Tries to force companies to upgrade to Office 2003
Post by: LordWiccara on 24 October 2003, 00:38
did this to my school.  made them upgrade to XP and office 2003.  pisses me off.  for me, i dont run any windows comps  (http://smile.gif)