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Thread ID: 117976	2011-05-13 02:33:00	Microsoft no longer activating Office 2003???	CYaBro (73)	PC World Chat

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1201911	2011-05-14 12:25:00	That article is about the portable version, and doesn't say anything about running in a cloud system... :pf1mobmini: As the name suggests, it’s a repackaged version of The Document Foundation’s free open-source application that is designed to run directly from USB — or even cloud — drives, allowing the end user to run the program on any Windows-compatible computer, including Macs and Linux running WINE.	mikebartnz (21)
1201912	2011-05-14 12:44:00	As the name suggests, it’s a repackaged version of The Document Foundation’s free open-source application that is designed to run directly from USB — or even cloud — drives, allowing the end user to run the program on any Windows-compatible computer, including Macs and Linux running WINE.I believe you've misunderstood the article. What you've quoted doesn't mean running in the cloud; it means "can run on the local system, backed by storage on any locally-mounted storage volume, without first requiring a machine-specific installation". This may include using things like network shares, dropbox-synced folders etc for storage. The word 'cloud' doesn't belong in that article at all, and is meaningless in that context - it only appears to have been dropped in there as a buzzword. The software is still running locally on your computer, and does not itself have anything to do with any cloud system.	Erayd (23)
1201913	2011-05-14 21:41:00	So is XP next???	Gobe1 (6290)
1201914	2011-05-14 22:49:00	So is XP next??? What do you mean XP Next --:p Hate to tell you this, but MS have already stopped its main stream support, its reached its end of life. There is no more "improvements", if you notice any windows updates, they are only security patches. If you read the XP life cycle chart (support.microsoft.com), come 2014 -thats it ---all over. Quoted from one article: But here’s a much more important support date: April 2014. That’s when Windows XP SP3 will reach the end of its support lifecycle and Microsoft will no longer distribute security patches for it. Businesses that deploy Windows XP via downgrade rights after April 2014 will be deploying an unsupported operating system. If you exercise those downgrade rights, you’re completely on your own. Do you feel lucky? The only way you can legally get a New copy of XP now, is Via downgrade rights with Professional and Ultimate editions of W7, it was also in Vista	wainuitech (129)
1201915	2011-05-15 04:22:00	This thread comes at an opportune time: my wife has just upgraded the family computer which had been running MS Office Professional 1997. Who knew? :eek: Anyway the cost of Office Home and Student 2010 is the next step if its a sensible upgrade. I have Office H&S 2003 with one install to go - should I try to load it? Windows 7 Home. One reason to upgrade to 2010 is our teenage children need to become familiar with the current software because that's what they'll be using in the future.	Winston001 (3612)
1201916	2011-05-15 04:29:00	OpenOffice/LibreOffice - yes I'm aware of these. I'm not a competent MS Office user but my one try of OO resulted in extreme confusion. Emailed Powerpoint files displayed sideways and it just seemed clunky to even get started with. Mainly my worry was creating a document which was unreadable by others. My wife is highly competent in Office but I think she'd do me serious harm if she had to learn a new software suite. Most people see computers as tools - they just want the things to work. :D	Winston001 (3612)
1201917	2011-05-15 06:00:00	Office 2003 works fine in W7, you just need the Office Compatibility Pack Download from here (www.microsoft.com) - this allows you to read and save in the new Office 2007/2010 formats. .docx for example Keep in mind that Office 2003, while good, is also outdated, Office 2010 has the ribbon, and several improvements :rolleyes: The ribbon should be here to stay, so if the children are learning the programs from scratch office 2010 would be better.	wainuitech (129)
1201918	2011-05-15 06:04:00	Mainly my worry was creating a document which was unreadable by others. You have to save it to a format that MS Office will read properly, it was atrocious a few years ago, but it is much better now. My wife is highly competent in Office but I think she'd do me serious harm if she had to learn a new software suite. IMO, going from Office 2k3 to LibreOffice is easier than going to 2k7 with the ribbon interface.	Cato (6936)
1201919	2011-05-16 03:41:00	Office 2003 works fine in W7, you just need the Office Compatibility Pack Download from here (www.microsoft.com) - this allows you to read and save in the new Office 2007/2010 formats. .docx for example Keep in mind that Office 2003, while good, is also outdated, Office 2010 has the ribbon, and several improvements :rolleyes: The ribbon should be here to stay, so if the children are learning the programs from scratch office 2010 would be better. Thanks, you've confirmed what I've now been told by my teenagers. They are used to the ribbon thing so going backwards isn't an option. It turns out that this pc (HP desktop) has a basic Office Starter 2010 installation - Word and Excell. That's enough to get going and maybe I'll buy an upgrade for them later. I'd really like to install OfficeLibre but...:rolleyes:	Winston001 (3612)
1201920	2011-05-16 05:36:00	Office 2003 works fine in W7, you just need the Office Compatibility Pack Download from here (www.microsoft.com) - this allows you to read and save in the new Office 2007/2010 formats. .docx for example Keep in mind that Office 2003, while good, is also outdated, Office 2010 has the ribbon, and several improvements :rolleyes: The ribbon should be here to stay, so if the children are learning the programs from scratch office 2010 would be better. I think most of office 2003 does. However I don't think outlook 2003 is fully compatible. When I tried to install it, it refused to remember email account passwords, and a popup box would always appear when checking your email.	robbyp (2751)
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