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Missing Features in Excel 2008!?
Microsoft has taken to using there market monopoly in one version of windows/office to drive the next version into the market against the will of the consumer, Fortune 500 Companies! Microsoft forces the world to upgrade by making previous versions unavailable. Microsoft stops production of old versions,

Column: Burn, Archive, and Share Digital Videos Using Windows XP M
How much more universal can you get than that? ...only after making the Windows Office application market look more barren than the Unix one. They are known for listening to consumers and working that into their plans as well as introducing new things for the consumer to try out and choose if they like. j.

Regulating Microsoft
MS usually makes a big deal out of every Office XP or Windows XP release. Why not with .NET? Accepted that Windows and Office are consumer oriented and .NET is developer oriented; but we developers are consumers too. Amazon is claiming to ship VB.NET on the 10th of Jan. I wonder how can MS RTM VB.NET (and I think .

Guilty, 'til proven guilty
I see the occasional activation glitch, and curse the extra hoops I and the rest of the XP consumers are forced to jump through because of the increasing global piracy of software. Yet MS sells both Windows & Office to pirate countries with a piracy rate of over 70% for forty dollars, and here in the US where the

N.American/global Xbox sales figures,Xbox 2 in Europe and NA
Troy Johnson tr...@u.washington.edu comp os ms-windows win95 setup obviously, you have never been in tech support or had to answer some of the stupidest .... fact" - or you can contact the information office at your State Attorney General's Office of Consumer Protection (which every state has), and ask them.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 31-12-06
Im talking about Windows and Office here, which have great functionality, but are put together sooo badly, with simple elementry design flaws. Which is why business and consumers gobble up Windows and Office upgrades each year like candy. Time to forge a plausible argument. In terms of Office suites nothing can

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Linux systems can be vulnerable too, but even the default security settings are more secure than Windows/Office/Outlook/Explorer. Of course this is only my opinion, and not a very informed one at that, since I haven't used OSX yet. I've used Linux for a long time, but I'm very excited by OSX.

project & resume
You don't buy a car without checking "Consumer Reports" and opinions on the web, do yo? Can Linux interface 100 percent with other Windows applications like Quicken and Microsoft Office? Are those application file formats fully documented? The Linux cuckoo will say that WINE is a great way to use WIndows programs

FW: [BSDG] Re: OT: Friday humor
Microsoft's "innovation" is making sure that customers are unable to make an INFORMED CHOICE, by excluding competitors from all consumer channels. .... In some cases, users of Windows/Office are required to compete with UNIX/OSS competitors on a price basis by working unpaid involuntary overtime "off the books" as

Microsoft's investment in Corel
As I've said again and again, I believe if you took an average Windows users and put him on a Linux box, telling him you had some new Windows office programs to try out, he'd never realize he --Rod -- Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod.

loan modification delay
ameijers aemeij...@worldnet.att.net comp periphs printers misc consumers "Bob Ward" <bob.w...@verizon.net> wrote in message Current Windows/Office is a good example of the 80/20 rule. Most of the bells and whistles just get in the way. Those of that started in the stone age did a lot of production work on

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Charging Thai consumers nearly $600 for Windows/Office is the equivalent of charging US consumers $3000. Pirates in Bangkok sell copies of Windows XP for $4 and Office XP for $8. With Microsoft refusing to lower its prices, the Ministry of ICT turned to Linux and StarOffice. The rock-bottom prices -- and easy

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But follow that advice installing Windows 95, and your system could turn to mush, as mine did. Microsoft didn't see fit to notify Windows 95 customers that the fact" - or you can contact the information office at your State Attorney General's Office of Consumer Protection (which every state has), and ask them.

Microsoft VS The World
... or have any valueable info, please email us or call San Diego FBI (619-231-1122, wire-fraud) , San Diego Police Deparment or the Postal Office consumer affairs (619-221-3353). Charles D Phillips "I Don't Do Windows, I Have A Macintosh" internet: philli...@sed.jsc.nasa.gov ^ phillips_char...@mmac18.jsc.nasa.gov.

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That includes a whole new version of Windows Office products which you can purchase just in time for Christmas, usually at under $500! .... We'll also send, in your name, a letter to Congress, and the editor of your hometown newspaper, reminding him or her that American consumers want software designed by huge

Expense Form Template Question
We are starting to see that with gasoline today, as consumers are getting tired of high prices (inflated because of the monopoly), and companies are starting to provide alternatives. Next, look at the price of Windows/Office when compared to most of their competition. But we don't really have a choice, do we?

Excel / Word very Slow
victo...@clark.net comp sys ibm pc hardware systems misc consumers The configuration: 16 MB RAM,1.2Gb HD,4X CDROM,5/3 Floppy Drives,2 MB ATI MACH 64, 17" SVGA Monitor, DOS/Windows/Office, ~$3300 in 6/95 The problems: Serial /Parallel ports were placed on expansion slot covers, making two expansion slots useless,

BMW sucks II
Maribeth Swiatek marib...@its.caltech.edu misc consumers frugal-living misc consumers alt consumers experiences This procedure will rid you of NIMDA. Step 2 is only for Win 95/98, Restore admin.dll and riched20.dll from backup or the Windows/Office .cab files if necessary. 10. Remove unnecessary shares. 11.

FTC NEWS ON ALPINE AIR MACHINES
Consumers would start to chose software based on features, instead of just what comes on their PC. Then, we'd start to see true innovation. Next, look at the price of Windows/Office when compared to most of their competition. But we don't really have a choice, do we? Sure, I can run Linux if I want to (and I

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... "Jonathan Jay" <jonathanjay...@aol.com> wrote: I received a Windows XP message today that a virus, W32RPC, had been detectived. you'll be reporting them to your state AG's office of Consumer Affairs, as engaging in unlawful advertising practices (because, quite clearly, no virus was there to detect,