Microsoft office genuine advantage

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The Professor

I'm not advocating that it's right to steal, just that it doesn't matter whether the price is £3 or £300. If you'd rather put it towards something else or don't have that money spare pirating it makes sense if you can live with the moral and legal consequences. Whatever the price you're still screwing with the developer's business model. Yes there are free alternatives but they're never as good as the market leaders.

Sorry Dom I didn't mean to target you :P

---

No worries haha. Easy to quote me as let's be honest, I am normally the one posting controversually (however it's spelt yeh) lol

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Recursion

I find the best removal tool is buying the damn software. It's cheap for students too, like £30 from www.software4students.co.uk, and nowhere sells it? Amazon, PC World, OcUK, Aria, eBuyer, any respectable PC shop.

But seriously, when it's only £30 for a student to buy something that normally costs upwards of £150 - £400 (depending on the version), it's a steal tbh, and you'll get Office 2010 or 2007

Have fun ;)

---

Some people aren't students.

People steal 99p music tracks? :) I BET you most people here have illegally downloaded music :)

There are plenty of free replicas around. I have Star Office which I got free with my course, fairly sure it's free elsewhere anyway if you find it but if not there are still loads of other office-type programs that don't cost a penny, if you don't mind not having the paperclip talking to you.

why not use openoffice?]

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

There are plenty of free replicas around. I have Star Office which I got free with my course, fairly sure it's free elsewhere anyway if you find it but if not there are still loads of other office-type programs that don't cost a penny, if you don't mind not having the paperclip talking to you.

---

Isn't StarOffice just OpenOffice now?

Might well be, version I have calls itself Star Office 9 though so dunno if they gave me a crappy old one or something :P

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Might well be, version I have calls itself Star Office 9 though so dunno if they gave me a crappy old one or something :P

---

Apparently changed its name in 2010 but StarOffice 9 was a product from 2008 so took their time to change the name lols

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Colin-Roberts

why not use openoffice?]

---

Because it's not a patch on the actual Microsoft Office, as much as I like Open Source, it's the truth ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SkyeLite

People steal 99p music tracks? :) I BET you most people here have illegally downloaded music :)

---

Not gunna lie, I have done, but now they're so cheap from AmazonMP3 and without DRM I have switched to buying them :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Recursion

Not gunna lie, I have done, but now they're so cheap from AmazonMP3 and without DRM I have switched to buying them :D

---

Exactly, most people here have downloaded free music and they say why get illegal products that are £30 ;/ :L including you.