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ggrobot Elite Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:08 pm Post subject: TechNews - Buy Office 365, Not Office 2013? [34625] |
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What is pretty clear is that Microsoft is trying hard to get people
on subscriptions. For example, the Office Professional subscription
allows installation on up to 5 devices per user (like Office 365 Home
Premium), where as the standalone version no longer allows installation
on a second device such as a laptop.
Read more...
Source: GGMania headlines
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Csimbi Elite Member
Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 4797 Location: The bright side of the dark side
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tride Elite Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Iceland Wants to Ban Internet Porn |
Woah, great! Now icelanders will get even higher percentage of psychopaths,
They live in dark for like half a year, dont get quality vitamins. Alcohol is expensive and hard to find. They are so depressed and bored there and now when there is no Porn anymore, i predict a lot of rage in Iceland |
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Csimbi Elite Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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So, ~350k less porn consumers - that is, if everyone consumed porn in Iceland. Great.
How much does it cost to make it happen and keep it happening? |
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Csimbi wrote: | So, ~350k less porn consumers - that is, if everyone consumed porn in Iceland. Great.
How much does it cost to make it happen and keep it happening? |
one or more willing local girls and Iceland is in business
besides, will they ban access to proxy providers?
PS. Bigger issue is at stake here. The are stomping on freedom of choice. |
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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hey chief, you forgot to link this: "Microsoft: The 90s - Here is a commercial to remind me how old I am. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer sucks" |
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heretic Site Admin
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:15 am Post subject: |
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gx-x wrote: | hey chief, you forgot to link this: "Microsoft: The 90s - Here is a commercial to remind me how old I am. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer sucks" |
Fixed |
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lorcro2000 Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:04 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately in an office environment there are many reasons to stay locked in to Office.
Mail and calendar/resource sharing via Outlook and Exchange... Excel is far more feature-ful than LibreOffice... compatibility with Office formats in other places... etc.
LibreOffice is getting better but it still has ways to go. |
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:34 am Post subject: |
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lorcro2000 wrote: | Unfortunately in an office environment there are many reasons to stay locked in to Office.
Mail and calendar/resource sharing via Outlook and Exchange... Excel is far more feature-ful than LibreOffice... compatibility with Office formats in other places... etc.
LibreOffice is getting better but it still has ways to go. |
people just need to take one small step...like the moon thing! Get it?!
Let me tell you a story:
i happen to know at least 3 persons that use photoshop every day. They crop their photos and save them for web. I suggested t o them to use "paint" for that purpose. They replied: "paint doesn't have near enough effects and things like photoshop does".
They still just crop pictures.
Get my point? |
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lorcro2000 Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Replacing an entire mail system is not a small step. :/ Exchange + Outlook works great when you get it up and running, and you can use it to share calendars and book resources (rooms, shared hardware...)
And people who use some heavy duty Excel stuff that pushes the software to the limits can't easily move that to LibreOffice, because the calc function there is inferior and can't handle the really complex stuff that some places use.
Then there's retraining every worker as well...
So yeah, it's one small step the way going to the moon was one small step, I agree. |
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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lorcro2000 wrote: | Replacing an entire mail system is not a small step. :/ Exchange + Outlook works great when you get it up and running, and you can use it to share calendars and book resources (rooms, shared hardware...)
And people who use some heavy duty Excel stuff that pushes the software to the limits can't easily move that to LibreOffice, because the calc function there is inferior and can't handle the really complex stuff that some places use.
Then there's retraining every worker as well...
So yeah, it's one small step the way going to the moon was one small step, I agree. |
well, there is more than one exchange server service. Besides, how many office users are "hardcore excel" practitioners?
"calc function there is inferior and can't handle the really complex stuff that some places use."
If those places rely on Microsoft software then they are in trouble. Such places should have their own software developed for their specific needs, running on *nix system or at least linux. |
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Baconnaise Elite Member
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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lorcro2000 wrote: | Replacing an entire mail system is not a small step. :/ Exchange + Outlook works great when you get it up and running, and you can use it to share calendars and book resources (rooms, shared hardware...)
And people who use some heavy duty Excel stuff that pushes the software to the limits can't easily move that to LibreOffice, because the calc function there is inferior and can't handle the really complex stuff that some places use.
Then there's retraining every worker as well...
So yeah, it's one small step the way going to the moon was one small step, I agree. |
I agree with you about libre office. I use it at home and recently deployed it at a small business where my wife works as a favor. It takes some getting used to and isn't as heavy as excel but it's more than enough for most businesses and home users. Part of the problem is leaving that comfort zone you have with a certain app where you know where everything is imo. |
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gx-x Elite Member
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, since I am designer, I do my office work in in-design or photoshop lol sometimes even illustrator xD
excell? da fak do you need that for, google docs does that shit xD |
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Baconnaise Elite Member
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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gx-x wrote: | Personally, since I am designer, I do my office work in in-design or photoshop lol sometimes even illustrator xD
excell? da fak do you need that for, google docs does that shit xD |
Google Docs is another decent alternative. Graphics wise I end up using Adobe products mostly due to the fact most of what I find relevant is in Fireworks/Photoshop formats with the associated filters addons etc. |
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