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We Just Learned CEO Satya Nadella's Master Plan For Microsoft
Business Insider ^ | 03/27/2014 | Steve Kovach

Posted on 03/27/2014 1:08:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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Looks like he’s on the right track.

Don’t like subscriptions to Office? There are non-MS freebies online (mentioned above by others), and the wholesale clubs sell other office software bundles for as little as $20 (has a PDF editor, which is why I wanted to try it) and Word Perfect, and the related spreadsheet I can’t remember the name, and some other stuff, is about $60.

Office hasn’t been under $200 in many many years, unless there was some short promos or something.

I d/led Open Office because I’d used that from time to time and liked it (it looks a lot more professional now). I had to use it today here at home because there’s nothin’ in the W8.1 installation.

Going back to WFW and pre-95 Windows there used to be a lower end basic office package “Works” that MS used to include for the OEMs. That’s been gone a while already.

Online ‘cloud’ apps are also available, and (allegedly) secure and available where you happen to be. Besides Google apps, there’s Zoho, and probably others:

https://www.zoho.com/productivity-apps.html


21 posted on 03/27/2014 4:15:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: familyop

VMS and its later version, OpenVMS was the best, most stable, reliable and most secure operating system I’ve worked with the past 20 years.

Too bad, it never achieved popularity other than in mission critical applications.


22 posted on 03/27/2014 4:56:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>Are we going to see .NET for, Linux, UNIX, iOS and Android?

That’s implied in the article, isn’t it? Color me skeptical.


23 posted on 03/27/2014 5:01:29 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: Mr. K
I think it's a great deal. For $99 a year, I get Microsoft Office on four devices (up to 5 if I need it). That's $20-25 a year per device to run the latest and greatest version of Office. Back in the 1990s, I paid something like $700 for a single-user copy of Office and it was out of date two years later.

Does anybody remember Microsoft Cinemania? Now that was a rip-off. I think I used it maybe 4 times. Now it's shelfware because the IMDB website has 1000x the information that Cinemania had. And it's free and up to date.


24 posted on 03/27/2014 5:46:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: UB355

I found for my sister a few years ago, i think it a free MS office limited functionality release with Advertising. She says it does the job.


25 posted on 03/27/2014 7:36:31 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: livius

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Premium-System-Builder-Packaging/dp/B00H09BB16/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1395974899&sr=1-1&keywords=windows+7


26 posted on 03/27/2014 7:52:42 PM PDT by DaveArk
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To: CodeToad

As my wife qualifies for educational pricing, $80 for 4 years on 2 devices is tolerable.


27 posted on 03/27/2014 8:52:47 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: SeekAndFind

I LIKED VMS TOO.


28 posted on 03/28/2014 7:53:46 AM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: 9YearLurker

IIRC, OpenOffice can export files in PowerPoint format from their OO equivalent to PP. (I know that OO Writer can export in Word format and that OO Calc can export .xls format files.) You may not be as “stuck” with Office as you think you are.


29 posted on 03/28/2014 8:08:36 AM PDT by Bob
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To: SeekAndFind

I certainly hope not, I enjoy not seeing the blue screen of death on those devices. and have no desire to see MS’s java clone ported to other environments. I don’t need to see any more Visual Basic as long as I live.


30 posted on 03/28/2014 8:17:48 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Bob

No, too much of the formatting was messed up . Microsoft knows how to protect its franchise.


31 posted on 03/28/2014 8:51:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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