My wife has a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows XP and openoffice
installed. From time to time, there are Windows updates and Vaio
updates which I generally accept unless I am in the middle of
something time critical.
The last 'update' from Microsoft seemed to be more on the order of a
serial number audit of their software. However, something else happened.
Yesterday, when I tried to open up an .xls document which was created
(by someone else on their own Windows machine) under Microsoft Excel,
A version of Microsoft Excel started on my machine to open up the
document. I assume that it was the trial or demo versions that came
with the original Windows OS. I have never purchased Microsoft
Office. I killed Excel and then tried to open the document in
OpenOffice and found it extremely difficult. I finally had to do a
search through the hard disk to find openoffice and then start it
from that file. Once OpenOffice was started, I could navigate to the
document and do an open. From then on I was in familiar territory.
I noticed that my Start menu entries for OpenOffice programs were
either not there, or what was there did not work.
To forestall this happening again, I put a shortcut to openoffice on
my Desktop and put the folder containing Microsoft OpenOffice in the
trash. A dialog box came up saying that if I really deleted MS
Office, some functions of my computer might not work.
I thought Microsoft was banged on the head by Fed Antitrust lawyers.
Why does MS continue to annoy me? What will happen if I do finally
trash the MS Office in my Trash folder?
Sincerely,
Bob Gustafson
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