http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Word allowed to stay on sale... for now http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/So to answer your question, yes and it will eventually. Why would people want to
pay when it is freely available.



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btw i am well aware of Open Office so don't come in here like a figgin Open Source Jehovah's Witness. i use what i use now leave me alone.]]>Sep 4th 2009 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/but because of Open Office Suite. Charging outrageous amount of
money for Word is over.


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Torrented Office, happy person.

(Bring on the low rank)]]>Sep 4th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
seriously, which word processor are you talking about? If it's microsoft word I feel like you haters should be ignored, but lets answer your points, shall we, just to highlight what a cock you are.
1) word 2007 opens in about 1-2 seconds here, and i'm using a crappy 2-3 year old cheap business pc.
2) a 44kb plain text log file from a backup job saves down as a 22kb docx file.
3) double click anywhere in your document that you want to place an image, and paste the image in.
4) get a life.]]>Sep 4th 2009 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
Open Office is OK but lacks Office's feature set.]]>Sep 4th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/1. Office stops being sold, for legal reasons, or when MS retires the product (unlikely), or what have you
or
2. Open Office stops being a steaming pile (also unlikely)]]>Sep 4th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
Then Microsoft copied the functionality in the next version of Office and told all i4i's customers how to not need i4i's product anymore (i.e. they "sold" the patented process). So much for developers,developers, developers... way to take one for the team! They tried very shallowly to cover up the copying and they lost.

This isn't somebody that had "sort of technology" and waited out the big settlement ... Microsoft knew they had patents before Microsoft showed up, tried to squeeze them out and the courts didn't buy Microsoft's excuses. It's about as willful infringement as you can get.....Microsoft wasn't even debating the claim to squeeze them out after being their business partner, just that their product might be different enough not to infringe the patent.

Tennenbaum was fined 19+ times (being really conservative here) his income for 30 $2 songs. How about we fine Microsoft 19x it's yearly income for this infraction (payable in gold bricks please)... if it's fair for one kind of IP why not the other?? Why are the courts worried about "fairness" to a willful infringing corporation when they blast an individual so harshly?]]>Sep 4th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.openoffice.org

Portable:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

AbiWord Portable:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable
]]>Sep 4th 2009 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
Is it as good as Microsoft Office? no, not yet. ]]>Sep 4th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/..but when iWork gains ODF support, I'll probably switch. Obj-C > Java]]>Sep 4th 2009 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
If you mean compiled code is better than the Java VM, then yes, that statement is correct.
If you mean Objective-C is better than Java the language, then that statement is not correct.]]>Sep 4th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
I mean, look at Microsoft Office suite 2010! I certainly hope the open source community come up something that will triumph commerical software in terms of user experience to make more competition in market.

Not just wasting time to log government and force them to load Linux on school and government boxes, but innovate and make the product more user friendly.]]>Sep 4th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Objective-C is a disgusting language. Java is much better...and I'm not a huge fan of Java either. C# is the way to go! Gotta love Visual Studio 2008.]]>Sep 4th 2009 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Is it better than Office in certain areas? Yes.
Is it better than Office in all areas? No. But then neither is Office.

]]>Sep 5th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
The whole problem is that courts think multi-billion dollar settlements are the solution.. in order to "punish" Microsoft in the same manner the P2P kids were punished you'd have to fine them 100 BILLION dollars every time one of these cases is judged against them.. and that's not "reasonable" to the courts.

Shutting Microsoft sales down is the only way to really punish them... hit their OEMS and Customers where it hurts! It's long past time that Microsoft's OEMs and Large Customers were hurt for being complicit in the monopoly abuses and incompatible file types and allowing Microsoft to push "somebody else" around as long as it wasn't them. A 6 month break from MS Word is exactly what other word processors need to generate some funds and beef up their products.

Monetary fines don't work against their disproportionally deep pockets... it's time to sit them out of the game for a bit. ]]>Sep 4th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
People DO NOT see the choice because other people like them DO NOT wanna them see those choices!!!.......
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Take it easy guys ]]>Sep 4th 2009 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/Sep 4th 2009 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
You getting away from my point/reality mr "ISKATEHARD247!!! Not even unique Mr #247

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I highly doubt you'll say that first comment again once you get out of high school... If you type like a monkey good luck finding a job now days. Yes this email name was back when Gmail first started and you could only pick from the account name that was invited (IE: an email account back from 7th grade).]]>Sep 4th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/microsoft-word-allowed-to-stay-on-sale-for-now/
What about you smart aleck?:)))

They have as many features as MO does have!;) And it's free!

I would not mind to pay up to $50 for MO but not about $200!

And it's monopoly like I said! So let's give those guys a chance and support them with money to develop those "fresh" free OS, software...]]>Sep 4th 2009 3:36AM