But which soft should we buy then? Last time I looked, not many devs actually offer flight sims and some office soft. :mellow: Not to forget the more serious note that I'm actually happy that MS did run flight sims for decades. Well, perception. ^_^

 

I still do fine with MS Office 2000... The upgrade mania is something I'm lucky enough to have under control. Unless there are new features I can't do without I see no need to upgrade. I'm a professional photographer and I still do fine with Photoshop 7!

You have a point. Sticking to the older stuff makes sense and is cheaper in most cases. Heck, I don't even know some of those buttons on the later office suites. :blush:

 

Does anybody know about the actual killer feature of 2013 in regard to 2010? Means apart from those advertising phrases like 'increased productivity'.

Bet not many people know this . I use Open Office, can be reinstalled as many times as you like, and free. Also a lot of other office stuff out there, who needs Microsoft office?

Echofox

 

LoL!

I've converted all my MS Word and Excel documents to OpenOffice and haven't lost any information or functionality. For exchanging documented information, the flightsim community should, in addition to PDF documents, adopt OpenOffice as a standard platform freely available worldwide.

 

My appreciation and thanks go to all persons engaged in the ongoing development and maintenance of this excellent tool.

 

JJ

I too made the switch to Open Office after I found out my newest development computer would not install my ancient, yet still legal copy of MS Office 2003...

LibreOffice is another free option. It's a fork of OpenOffice due to some disagreements between the community and Oracle, who own OpenOffice (or did at the time).

 

http://www.libreoffice.org/

I still do fine with MS Office 2000...

 

newest development computer would not install my ancient, yet still legal copy of MS Office 2003...

 

I still run Office2000 on Win7 64-bit. Outlook is the only application that won't work so I use Mozilla Thunderbird for e-mails.

 

I also still use Borland C++ Builder of the same era.

OpenOffice only way to go, Gates and friends have enough my money............. :(

I use both Open Office 3.3 and MS Word 2003. The Open Office runs on a W7-64 Enterprise and the Word 2003 runs on a W7-64 Home Premium. One is just as good as the other. All I ever do is use them for word processing and spell check anyway.

 

The Word software is over 10 years old, has had its automatic updates, so unless they make it incompatible with new OS, I will run it for another 10 years. Otherwise Open Office for me.

 

Kind regards,

I am still running Office 2000 as well. Works fine for me. If I do upgrade it will be to OpenOffice.

 

The marketing Department over at Microsoft is a little out of touch of they think they could get me to sign up for a subscription of the latest Office2013. Interesting to read on Wiki how many people have switched to OpenOffice and I am sure their market share will double over the next year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice#Market_penetration

I guess Microsoft don't care sine 99% of their Office licenses will be bought buy business customers who don't really care.

Most business customers will have some form of Volume Licencing agreement with different terms.