SuperTaz Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 You can now get Microsoft Office 2010 Professional for the student discount of $79.95 MS Office 2010 Professional Student Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benway Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 http://www.openoffice.org/ ¢ 0.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kolor Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 http://www.openoffice.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTaz Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMagnet Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 haha what kind of bad stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTaz Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 For starters, the bsod. Secondly, system crashing and many others. Sorry, but no more of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMagnet Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTaz Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 Also, read some reviews about it. It seems I am not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everson Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kolor Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 So are the constant security updates for MS office that we have to test and roll out over 100's of machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everson Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Use WSUS, nice and easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kolor Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everson Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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