Microsoft opens up Office 365 as public beta
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20054852-75.html#ixzz1JxM45EfF
No more commercial version of Open Office, Oracle makes it solely community based.
makes you wonder what their strategy was in taking it on in the first place. So this announcement is a day late and a dollar short, given that Libre Office branched off a while ago. So I wonder if this is more to do with stamping on the Libre Office version than anything else.
They had no real choice, I believe. And yes, it’s too late - Libre Office is the better branch meanwhile and all the real important people changed to LO.
OpenOffice is dead - or the name will be given back to LibreOffice (if they still want it which I doubt ;D )
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@Bob hey thanks for linking to this nero utility 
Just installed it and be sure to uncheck the ASK Toolbar.
yeah I wanted to edit my post to mention that ;D
there’s already an update ???
warning: that was expected as I saw it going on during the install…the setup of nero kwik removed the latest MS security update patch for c++2005 … and replaces it with the same package
That’s ridiculous :
KB2467175 … and now Windows Update doesn’t detect it anymore and wants to install it again…
edit: I’ve re-installed the WinUpdate version (no idea what the difference is), and now nero kwik refuses to start…
edit: works again after a reboot
1 GB hard drive space for a typical installation of all components
That ridiculous in my opinion. It also installs Silverlight which I’ve never seen a use for. I’ll stick with Ashampoo that includes a Lightscribe enabled labeling utility.
I’m not forcing you to install it. ;D
Once I’ve finished playing with it, I may come to the same conclusion.
I also have Ashampoo’s excellent product on my system.
Nero -1 in my computer… It’s a bloatware that wants to do everything in the computer. From burning CD to washing my teeth 
I know the free is only for burning… But it’s my prejudice against bloatwares… Sorry.
We are having a problem here with the same C++2005 update. It worked fine on my XP machine and even said it was uninstalling the older version as a part of updating. On the Vista machine, even though it says it was successfully applied, if you search for available updates, there it is wanting to be installed again. We have not touched Nero Kwik.
XP end of support is scheduled to 2014.
It’s far… But Microsoft starts to celebrate… Buy new versions
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53a27766-0168-4617-b44e-74b2886cec6d
I see its only for Vista and Windows 7System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7;Windows Vista
Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, any edition.
I’ll try it om my Windows 7 system.
lol yeah that’s ridiculous as XP has no support for Windows gadgets ;D … meaning that only those running Vista and Seven can watch the disaster countdown ;D
and here we go ;D
this is still more ridiculous, when you expand the gadget you see that… while you already run Vista or Seven :