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    Eugh, well, I obviously didn't pay for office 03, mainly because I wouldn't want to pay the stupid price it normally costs but you actually can't find anywhere that sells it lol.

    Anyway....

    Microsoft decided to roll out as an essential update this stupid office genuine advantage thing (which i did stop from downloading but they snuck in there) which kindly reminds you that office isn't genuine. Firstly it was just a nice little pop up message saying learn more or remind me later but now it has a countdown of days until it's marked as nor genuine (which i assume will make it un useable)

    Anyone else been stuck with this lovely application and know how to remove it?

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    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

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    just download it from thepiratebay.org

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    Bit of a sad person to actually steal £30 of software, I am pretty sure ANYONE in the UK can afford that.


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    There is a registry hack you can get to validate Office 2007, try looking for 2003.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Android View Post
    Bit of a sad person to actually steal £30 of software, I am pretty sure ANYONE in the UK can afford that.
    £30 is £30, if you can pirate it for free and spend the £30 for more essential things like petrol or a social life it makes sense. If you want to pay go ahead but don't force it down everyone's throats!

    As Art said, just download the new one from the torrents, you'll get all the new features (which includes opening .docx files which I know 2003 can't do)

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Professor View Post
    £30 is £30, if you can pirate it for free and spend the £30 for more essential things like petrol or a social life it makes sense. If you want to pay go ahead but don't force it down everyone's throats!

    As Art said, just download the new one from the torrents, you'll get all the new features (which includes opening .docx files which I know 2003 can't do)
    I take a totally different view on that

    Piracy is only good if it's something rediculously priced like Photoshop (It's still something like £180 for a student), if it's cheap and you need/use/want the software, then just buy it
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Professor View Post
    £30 is £30, if you can pirate it for free and spend the £30 for more essential things like petrol or a social life it makes sense. If you want to pay go ahead but don't force it down everyone's throats!

    As Art said, just download the new one from the torrents, you'll get all the new features (which includes opening .docx files which I know 2003 can't do)
    If you're careful, you can also go into a shop and take some clothes for free. You can take food from Tesco without paying too.

    What an absolutely ridiculous argument. If someone needs Microsoft Office, they can buy it. As a student it's brilliantly inexpensive, so there really is no bar there. If he/she can't pony up £30, there are free alternatives out there. Yeah, free as in legal.

    I think Recursion's argument (while I don't subscribe to it myself) does have some valid moral weight. Adobe's high-priced, high-end software is out of reach of the average consumer (except students needing it for their course, which is affordable). They are targeting the professional studios who need the software and need to be 100% legal. Adobe's prices are so high because they know professionals will pay the cost, which compensates for the private piracy at the other end of the spectrum.


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    Quote Originally Posted by The Professor View Post
    £30 is £30, if you can pirate it for free and spend the £30 for more essential things like petrol or a social life it makes sense. If you want to pay go ahead but don't force it down everyone's throats!

    As Art said, just download the new one from the torrents, you'll get all the new features (which includes opening .docx files which I know 2003 can't do)
    I like how you only quoted me there alex

    Quote Originally Posted by Barmi View Post
    If you're careful, you can also go into a shop and take some clothes for free. You can take food from Tesco without paying too.

    What an absolutely ridiculous argument. If someone needs Microsoft Office, they can buy it. As a student it's brilliantly inexpensive, so there really is no bar there. If he/she can't pony up £30, there are free alternatives out there. Yeah, free as in legal.

    I think Recursion's argument (while I don't subscribe to it myself) does have some valid moral weight. Adobe's high-priced, high-end software is out of reach of the average consumer (except students needing it for their course, which is affordable). They are targeting the professional studios who need the software and need to be 100% legal. Adobe's prices are so high because they know professionals will pay the cost, which compensates for the private piracy at the other end of the spectrum.
    Exactly.

    People say pirating £30 is fine, yet they wouldn't like it if they were let's say Nike, and they opened a shop and everyone kept stealing their £30 shoes.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Barmi View Post
    If you're careful, you can also go into a shop and take some clothes for free. You can take food from Tesco without paying too.

    What an absolutely ridiculous argument. If someone needs Microsoft Office, they can buy it. As a student it's brilliantly inexpensive, so there really is no bar there. If he/she can't pony up £30, there are free alternatives out there. Yeah, free as in legal.

    I think Recursion's argument (while I don't subscribe to it myself) does have some valid moral weight. Adobe's high-priced, high-end software is out of reach of the average consumer (except students needing it for their course, which is affordable). They are targeting the professional studios who need the software and need to be 100% legal. Adobe's prices are so high because they know professionals will pay the cost, which compensates for the private piracy at the other end of the spectrum.
    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

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