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It's not illegal, it would just make Microsoft unhappy. Shed a tear and move along.

Originally Posted by aidanjt It's not illegal, it would just make Microsoft unhappy. Shed a tear and move along. i hope ur not bieng sarcasstic

I agree Saracen. I have be tasked with developing a simple spreadsheet based accounting system with a small business. The business in quesiton is open to switching to OpenOffice, but such a change would involve me learning OOo Macro lanuage, an epic task when I already know, understand, can can code VBA. Considering Office 2007 was an option for the business as well, I opted to use that instead. OpenOffice is great, I like it, but I still...

If it works fine in Vista then I would of expected it to work under 7 as well, but, being frank if your buying a new machine with w7 on it then would you expect somethings not to work? My old man just bought a new machine and I stuck w7 on it, then I had to bin it and put XP back on because his agency software wouldnt work under 7 but would under Vista, but me being me I decided I'd get less ear ache if he was on XP over Vista...

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Originally Posted by usxhe190 there is nothing wrong with OpenOffice, but if you are used to MSOffice, there will be compatibility issues because MSOffice just does things MS way (as always) unfortunately. Oh sure, I'm not knocking OpenOffice. My experience has been, as a product in it's own right, it's very good indeed, and certainly a strong contender for anyone starting from cold. For most home users, for instance, it'd...

Originally Posted by snootyjim It might be worth just installing without activating if you've got any disks lying around and just see how it goes - a trial period if you like. That was an idea which i'll think i'll do. Now i just need to wait till my mate gets back from work

Yeah thought so. It's not that much of a big deal since you can minimise/close from the taskbar OK. It also seems to happen randomly so it would be hard to tell if disabling Aero fixed it unfortunately. I had a fair number of tabs open last time it happened so maybe that had something to do with it?

It might be worth just installing without activating if you've got any disks lying around and just see how it goes - a trial period if you like.

Ouch - did he do that? And I fell for it - how did you find out? Gav - I wasn't aware that papercut was free for 1-5 PCs. I'm only wanting it for 1, I'll look into this again, missed it the first time round! Thanks