Comments on: ‘Free’ ad-supported MS Works

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:20:16 +0000

Hopefully this is just the beginning.

I would like to see MS do the Same for Office Standard (Word, Excel, Power Point) in an online format. Make it Part of Hotmail or something.
Nothing is worse than having to use MS Office at work and then have to buy it at home just so you can finish up a Presentation or a spreed sheet.

OpenOffice still needs a lot more work in the spreed sheet department. But as a word proc. it’s not that bad (better than Word Perfect)
Hopefully the next version will be out soon

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:06:40 +0000

as a student who suffered from ms office and powerpoint in particular not converting nicely to openoffice a free version sound brill. and as ms works and ms office are compatible, you can correctly import ms works files in to office, some problems doing it the otherway but if you know how to change the file type you save to no problem.

all in all a half decent move by microsoft but then again if openoffice is installed on the computer it wins hands down.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:44:37 +0000

Let ‘em have it. A hack to remove advertising would be published a few days after software… If anyone needs it at all, because it’s still easier just to download MS Office from torrent.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:07:30 +0000

MS Works is using a closed binary format, at least previous versions of it did. And when you come to a computer lab, you find not MS Works, but, you guessed it – MS Office.

Better to use OpenOffice then (how to convince the sysadmin to get it to the labs is another issue).