[hblug] The docx problem

[chris morris]

t94xr wrote:
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> And most of the software you purchase on newer computers are trials, 
> trial Norton products, trial games, perhaps Norton are doing the same 
> with their security suite.
> Its the computer manufactuers who are messing people around. A person 
> buys a computer, they sell it with Office 2007 and Norton Internet 
> Security 2008 only to find when they have purchased the computer, the 
> software they thought they were getting with it are only trials and 
> they have to purchase a new copy of Office 2007 and buy another copy 
> of Norton Internet Security.
> All on their new laptop that has Vista Home Basic, with 512MB RAM.
And the PC manufacturers put these trial apps in because:

1 They're getting a kickback from the software company?
2 They're hoping that when the app expires the sucker who bought it will 
come back and pay several hundred dollars for more unnecessary software 
because he/she has already ( unknowingly ) committed 3 months work to 
some proprietary file format?
( most MS office users have no idea what "document format" means - they 
just hit the save button )


I've no objection to MS making random file formats - as long as the 
default save-as is on their application is something generic ( odf , rtf? )
To dupe unsuspecting customers into saving their work in a proprietary 
format - is typical of MS.

The PC manufacturers could always install OO - but then they couldnt 
hold people to ransom over expired trial software...


chris