Luddites... Oy!

[Tyg3rW01f]

My father asked me to find my copy of Microsoft Office 2007. Not a BIG Problem, as I knew the 10x10 triangulation of the software's location... but WHICH BOX in that 10x10 storage facility was the issue.
I found it on Sunday, rather, I found the TRIAL version... No big deal, it'll give him 180 days to eBay an unsold version of Office 2007...
Then, he asks me the SAME EXACT question FIFTEEN TIMES in two hours -- reworded each time. When I got frustrated and told him the answer was the same as the LAST fourteen times, he got p----d and decided it wasn't worth his time.
It's TRIAL software, OF COURSE it won't do S---!!!
The man has it in his head that no matter how I answer a question, it is either me not answering the question at all or else it is not the answer he wants to hear.

No, it's not the copy I have on MY laptop or MY tower. THAT copy is still buried SOMEWHERE in 28 boxes that are hodge-podged amongst 190 others!
However, D----it, thanks to a flood on August 5th and losing my factory job the following monday, I'm living in his guestroom, with less than 10% of all my belongings; I haven't got the the space to dig for software!

[Tyg3rW01f]

P. S.
In case anyone considers it, a Computer Information Associate's Degree from National College of Business and Technology ((of which I was one class short)) is an unsupportable $35k MISTAKE.
It qualifies you for nothing more than Secretarial work.

Dad brought up the point of this education, and I was a bit to tense to remind him that my un-accredited piece of paper means I can USE the software, NOT FIX IT!

[protege]

I went through something like that with my grandmother. Her crappy old Dell finally destroyed itself last year, and she'd bought a new one. The new one came with trial versions of Excel, Word, Access, etc. on it. For awhile, she was using them, until the trial period elapsed. Late one night, I get a frantic phone call about how "Word no longer works" and she needed to do something "important." I tried to tell her that the trial version was all she had, and if she wanted the "real" version, she'd have to pay for it.

Yes, she flipped about the cost because it was "too expensive" and why couldn't we reuse the version she had on her old computer? It was one of those "will not install on anything but that particular model" type deals and no amount of explanation would get her to shut up. Told her I'd think of something and hung up.

I managed to get lucky--I'd just scrapped a dying computer at work, and it just happened to have a license for Office 2007 (interesting coincidence there ) that I could transfer. Plus, if I junked it, I'd also get the original discs and any parts. Took the disc over there, loaded Office, and all was good.

Annoyed the hell out of me, simply because she kept repeating herself. What's the definition of insanity again?

[Jay 2K Winger]

The cost of the MS Office products is the main reason I either use Google Docs or OpenOffice. Same basic functionality.

[Andara Bledin]

OpenOffice is dead. Long live LibreOffice.

^-.-^

[Jay 2K Winger]

OpenOffice is dead. Long live LibreOffice.

^-.-^

Well, now I know that. I hadn't had to use OpenOffice in a while.

[Lachrymose]

Lud? Oy? Tower?

(Sorry...rereading Dark Tower at the moment. )

[Rapscallion]

OpenOffice is dead. Long live LibreOffice.

We have that on one machine at work. Either the machine is underpowered or it's a resource hog, or both. The latter is most likely

Rapscallion

[Shalom]

Well, now I know that. I hadn't had to use OpenOffice in a while.

So now I need to know. I'm still running OO.o 3.3.0, and it's due for updating.

Should I go with Apache OO 3.4.1 or LibreOffice 3.6.3? Anyone used both and can comment?

[AmbrosiaWriter]

So now I need to know. I'm still running OO.o 3.3.0, and it's due for updating.

Should I go with Apache OO 3.4.1 or LibreOffice 3.6.3? Anyone used both and can comment?

I use Apache and it works for all the things I need it to do (which ranges from word processing to assisting on spread sheets as well as other projects), and reliably. I have a friend who used Libre for a while and for some strange reason it was always a pain in the ass for her to try and open up any document that was created using a Microsoft program, whereas I have no issues with Apache.

She's switched over to Apache.

[Andara Bledin]

I hardly use either, as I'm online almost always, so I end up just using Google docs, which is now Google drive. (and a huge resource hog in Firefox, for some reason, but fine in Chrome)

^-.-^

[Akasa]

Wait... what do you mean OpenOffice is dead? I use OpenOffice for my writing...

[Andara Bledin]

The developers for OO.o wanted to do more than Oracle wanted to allow, so they splintered off and created LibreOffice, but I guess with Apache at the help, OO.o is still alive.

Who knew.

^-.-^

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I hardly use either, as I'm online almost always, so I end up just using Google docs, which is now Google drive. (and a huge resource hog in Firefox, for some reason, but fine in Chrome)

^-.-^

Lol. That's because Chrome is also a google program and The Drive is built to work most efficiently with it. XD

[mhkohne]

Wait... what do you mean OpenOffice is dead? I use OpenOffice for my writing...

Not in the least. It's just moved from Oracle (who got it in the Sun deal) to Apache. LibreOffice is a fork of OO.o that happened at the time of the Oracle deal. Both branches are presently alive, though there is some animosity, for reasons I don't understand.