Lately, Word has been throwing up a window alerting me that another installation of MS Office is running and I am not allowed to run two of the same program on the network, so it’s shutting me down. This can be very annoying when you have several long documents open and are editing like a mad thing while trying to polish a resume and finish a homework assignment.
It’s even more annoying that I am NOT in fact running two installations of the same software. I am running ONE, which I PURCHASED with my own MONEY all fair and square. So in spite of this I am being SCREWED by M$’s antipiracy measures. I am also not running it on a network, unless you count the internet - and I know that I did not upload a copy of my key or my software, and therefore no one is using them unless they’re very good guessers, and why bother? There are plenty of hacked versions floating about.
I downloaded OpenOffice the other day and was thoroughly frustrated with it - the word processor refreshes constantly on my system, and I don’t care much for typing in a disco. So I am shopping for an alternative word processor/office package, because I am soon to graduate and no longer need Office to be my primary software choice. It’s not very likely that I’ll require PowerPoint unless, at some point in the far distant future, I will do presentations, at which point I would likely pick up a copy of Apple’s office software, which is totally cheaper than M$’s version with the same functionality.
Roommate asked about the Macbook, as in, would I get one. Well, probably I would - but I wouldn’t put Windows on it. That’s a little like sticking a VW engine in a Hummer. Like, WHY?
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