Office prices

[Gordon]

I just saw the prices for the newest Offce 2003 packages.

$400 for the standard edition
$250 for the upgrade, which doesn't allow Office 95 users
to upgrade.

You people are crazy.

I can get an office package for less than $100, which will
do more than what I will ever need. In fact my Office 95
still works fine. So why should I go and spend $400 for
Office 2003? The $150 that you charge for the
student/teacher edition is a more resonable price, but
unfortuniately, I can't purchase it.

Sooner or later I hope to find an Office 2000 around, for
a reasonable price, a product which doesn't require
Microsoft's new activation, which both myself, and many
others, don't trust. The fear is that you can, and will
shut down the product, forcing us to upgrade to your next
product.

Microsoft is not exactly a name one can trust.

Keep up the good work w/driving your customers away.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

In fact my Office 95 still works fine.

So why upgrade? Use what meets your needs... and if it's Office 95, so be
it.

Office 95 was not an upgrade for Office 2000 either... BTW - you'll need
Win2k or WinXP OS to install Office 2003.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

So why upgrade? Use what meets your needs... and if it's Office 95, so be
it.

It's really an empty argument. You can say the same thing about any complex
consumer product from a car to a TV or digital camera. These products will
progress and it's the consumer's decision as to when to enter the market and
how often. It's not common for any manufacturer to keep old models around.

 

[Bob I]

This is a peer to peer group so, who in particular are you refering to?

 

[Bob I]

If you consider that from 1995 to present is 8 years and divide that
into 400 for a total of 50 bucks a year that's about 15 cents a day. Of
course you can continue to use 95 for as long as you want and not buy
anything. It is your money to spend as you wish.

 

[Gordon]

I just wanted to get my message to Microsoft about their
high prices. I searched and could not find anywhere else
to release my anger about their pricing.

You would think that they would be more resonable w/their
prices so that people, such as myself, could go out and
purchase their product(s), but being essentially a
monopoly, their atitude is, so what. That's why Linux is
slowing winning, regardless of the Microsoft supported SCO
lawsuit against IBM.

I have always built my systems, and so I don't get a
preinstalled operating system and software w/my computers.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Linux is not *winning* - most people who run linux also run Windows
(hobbyists that is.) This is not a competition.

Linux is becoming very attractive to the server market. However, I believe
that you actually mean Open Source Software (OSS) such as OpenOffice.Org or
StarOffice or ABIWord as becoming more attractive to the endusers.

Yes, and more power to them. Unfortunately, I have not found a single one
that gives me a collaboration replacement for Outlook. Ximian Evolution is
one option but it does not quite fit the bill, yet.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Gordon <[email protected]> asked:

| I just wanted to get my message to Microsoft about their
| high prices. I searched and could not find anywhere else
| to release my anger about their pricing.
|
| You would think that they would be more resonable w/their
| prices so that people, such as myself, could go out and
| purchase their product(s), but being essentially a
| monopoly, their atitude is, so what. That's why Linux is
| slowing winning, regardless of the Microsoft supported SCO
| lawsuit against IBM.
|
| I have always built my systems, and so I don't get a
| preinstalled operating system and software w/my computers.
|
|
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| This is a peer to peer group so, who in particular are you refering
|| to?
||
|| Gordon wrote:
||
||| I just saw the prices for the newest Offce 2003 packages.
|||
||| $400 for the standard edition
||| $250 for the upgrade, which doesn't allow Office 95 users
||| to upgrade.
|||
||| You people are crazy.
|||
|||
||
|| .

 

[Mardus]

And I remember Ximian Evolution costs money, too.
Gordon: Have OpenOffice.org, then, if you can live without MSOffice.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

And I remember Ximian Evolution costs money, too.
Gordon: Have OpenOffice.org, then, if you can live without MSOffice.

Linux is not *winning* - most people who run linux also run Windows
(hobbyists that is.) This is not a competition.

Linux is becoming very attractive to the server market. However, I
believe that you actually mean Open Source Software (OSS) such as
OpenOffice.Org or StarOffice or ABIWord as becoming more attractive
to the endusers.

Yes, and more power to them. Unfortunately, I have not found a
single one that gives me a collaboration replacement for Outlook.
Ximian Evolution is one option but it does not quite fit the bill,
yet.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer

I just wanted to get my message to Microsoft about their
high prices. I searched and could not find anywhere else
to release my anger about their pricing.

You would think that they would be more resonable w/their
prices so that people, such as myself, could go out and
purchase their product(s), but being essentially a
monopoly, their atitude is, so what. That's why Linux is
slowing winning, regardless of the Microsoft supported SCO
lawsuit against IBM.

I have always built my systems, and so I don't get a
preinstalled operating system and software w/my computers.



-----Original Message-----
This is a peer to peer group so, who in particular are you refering
to?

Gordon wrote:

I just saw the prices for the newest Offce 2003 packages.

$400 for the standard edition
$250 for the upgrade, which doesn't allow Office 95 users
to upgrade.

You people are crazy.



.

Unfortunately, Open Office doesn't have a PIM.

 

[Gordon]

I'm running the Win2k OS w/Office95. Unless I can find a
copy of Office 2000 for a resonable price, say for around
$150, I'm going to go w/WordPerfect2000, or some other
office packet.

Last year I gave my niece an old computer I had, w/Win98
on it, she got the licensed CD w/it, for her first year of
college. I went and bought the Wordperfect2000 Office
package for it, because, it was affordable. I couldn't
afford a Microsoft Office package for it. WordPerfect2000
works perfectly OK for her in her studies, so the need to
buy a Microsoft Office package hasn't proved to be a
necessity.

 

[Gordon]

Starting w/Office XP, I won't be able to run a product as
long as I have w/Office95, because Microsoft "WILL"
disable it, w/it's activation program. Microsoft "WILL"
force me to upgrade when they fail to renew my activation.

That's why I want to purchase Office2000, which doesn't
have this activation. Of course, that's not to say that
they won't find some other way for people to not operate
an older product.