On 2007-05-15, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 03:12:42 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Crushed by the Wheels of Industry [Lockin and Greed]
>>
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>>| "I'll just convert these back to the .DOC format the older versions
>>| use. That's most likely the version you have at school." I told her. But
>>| when I read the files in Word 2007 and eventually found the "Save As"
>>| entry in the new menu system I discovered to my horror it was grayed
>>| out. "This feature is only available in the full version of Office
>>| 2007." popped up a helpful little message. "Click here to purchase
>>| it." Getting increasingly worried, I decided to try a more desperate
>>| measure. I selected the whole file and looked for the "Copy and
>>| Paste" option. I might lose the formatting this way, but at least
>>| I'd get the text of the essay she'd written. Copy and paste were
>>| disabled in the same way, and with the same message.
>> `----
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>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html
>
> Lol, there's no less than half a dozen ways he could have dealt with this
> issue if he had applied half a braincell to it, but his hatred of things
> Microsoft seemed to cloud his judgement.
Yep. OpenOffice would handle it nicely. And it would continue working
into the future. Best of all, it would cost far less than the more
expensive version of lockinware.
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Don't open Windows, you'll let the bugs in!
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