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Re: $100 a year to USE MS Office - lol I did a thread on this a while back. Home users really get a deal compared to Business users. It isn't a half bad deal for the home user, especially since they are raising the price of the perpetually licensed software. You basically get Office Pro, but instead of paying $350/2 (1 install now) installs, you pay $100 per year for 5. Since MS updates Office every 3 years a person who would buy Pro every three years comes out ahead. Way ahead if they have 3 or more devices to put it on. I typically buy the lowest price version that comes with Outlook and that has averaged around $250 every three years or so.
I'm not a big fan of subscription models, but they can be a great deal if you use a lot of the included software. The Adobe Creative Cloud is one example of a great deal if you use a lot of their software. I'm considering taking Microsoft up on their subscription. You can buy into it from Staples or just about anywhere. Home and Business, which is the edition I would buy if perpetually licensed, would cost $220 and it would only work on one PC. I can part with less than half that cash the first year and have software for 5 PCs. Very tempting. |
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kudos:1 | I use open office and google docs.
My employer sells home keys for $1, but I didn't take them up on the offer.
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said by Kramer:I did a thread on this a while back.
Yep - remember the discussion, but for me and Outlook, it was not worth the effort.
This was the topic from memory:
»[Info] Microsoft Office Users, Price Going Way Up
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kudos:2 | I'm very much interested in the improvements MS has made with IMAP in Outlook. Apparently they really worked on it to make the experience better. |
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Don't get me wrong, I want Outlook, but the costs involved were not allowing the benefits. I wonder if they will ever look at it as an option for the home user.
As for email retrieval, 2007 is giving me and has for some time problems at home with the user credentials, anything improved would be worth looking at.
For work, there seems to be a real issue with user authentication for 2007 and I've had serious SSL folder corruption with reports with it being over some sort of limit - clearing it fixed it. 2010 seems even more of a pain. I deleted the SSL folder contents info regarding images, PDFs, etc and 2010 spat the dummy, what a mess due to the way it works the "live user" - I can't remember the term for it right now, but cleaning the 2007 version against the 2010 version was easy, I'll never delete the contents of the stored Outlook SSL contents folder for 2010 ever again without more research.....what a headache it was.
Maybe that was just my trouble and others do not see it. An improvement would be appreciated.
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said by Kramer:I'm very much interested in the improvements MS has made with IMAP in Outlook. Apparently they really worked on it to make the experience better.
If they have, I can't tell and I've been running Outlook 2013 for months. IMAP is still slow, buggy, doesn't push, and when new email arrives you get a toast notification ... but nothing in Outlook is bolded.
On the plus side, if you have an Outlook Anywhere connection (Exchange RPC, etc.) your username/password are now remembered properly. |
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| said by AnonFTW :said by Kramer:I'm very much interested in the improvements MS has made with IMAP in Outlook. Apparently they really worked on it to make the experience better.
If they have, I can't tell and I've been running Outlook 2013 for months. IMAP is still slow, buggy, doesn't push, and when new email arrives you get a toast notification ... but nothing in Outlook is bolded. On the plus side, if you have an Outlook Anywhere connection (Exchange RPC, etc.) your username/password are now remembered properly. Outlook has always been a POS since it came on the scene. Slow, buggy, cumbersome, and just a horrible experience. |
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