Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Student Version

[SuperTaz]

You can now get Microsoft Office 2010 Professional for the student discount of $79.95

 

MS Office 2010 Professional Student

[Benway]

http://www.openoffice.org/ ¢ 0.00

[Kolor]

http://www.openoffice.org/

[SuperTaz]

I will never use open office again. I had too many bad experiences with it. Sorry, but I would rather pay for MS Office than use Open Office.

[HSMagnet]

haha what kind of bad stuff?

[SuperTaz]

For starters, the bsod. Secondly, system crashing and many others. Sorry, but no more of that.

[HSMagnet]

i have used several versions and the worst problem i had was some conversions didn't work properly and the document had to be retyped

[SuperTaz]

Also, read some reviews about it. It seems I am not the only one.

[Everson]

Microsoft all the way for me.

 

I'm a network engineer so the thought of going near something like OpenOffice, while free in comparison, is very scary.

 

As already mentioned the conversion issues that occur are really annoying.

[Kolor]

So are the constant security updates for MS office that we have to test and roll out over 100's of machines.

[Everson]

Use WSUS, nice and easy.

[Kolor]

It's not the patching itself that is the issue, it's the in house compliance, checking with our developers, testing patches on various machines in various departments etc and then hoping that the random sample you tested and holds

true for every other machine under your umbrella.

[Everson]

Patch -> Works -> Leave

 

Patch -> Machine Breaks -> Fix -> Leave

 

All our machines should have base standardized environments within the next few months so I'm not too worry about patches breaking things (if it happens).

 

I think I've only had one patch break something once in 4 years, easy to fix, kept me busy for a few hours on a 500~ network.