MS Office Bastards

[Shirker]

Its not Microsoft who are the bastards though. Been using OpenOffice on all our PCs for a while but had constant niggles such as spellcheckers randomly stop working, fairly frequent crashes, automatic updates stopping it working, inconsistencies when saving to .doc format when sending clients documents in a format they could edit, etc. As Office 2010 came out I decided to buy Office Pro 2007 as I found a website selling off their older copies. Bought 5 of them. Website was in China so I did some research to see if there were any negative reviews, etc. and found nothing so went ahead.

Got five copies of bloody office now and of the five, three have installed while the other two won't as, surprise surprise, it fails the genuine software checks. swine swine bastards. How much of a bung will it take to get Cameron to nuke Shanghai in retaliation:

[neal]

send them back?

[Shirker]

The company has changed it's name and doesn't respond to any of the old numbers or orders. Arses.

[Jem]

"If it sounds too good to be true..."

[Shirker]

Bah, and indeed harrumph.

[MattC]

"If it sounds too good to be true..."

wss

[slaughteredlamb]

Website was in China

And that wasn't enough to tell you they were almost certainly fake? 

[Matt]

Website was in China

And that wasn't enough to tell you they were almost certainly fake? 

whs

[MattC]

Website was in China

And that wasn't enough to tell you they were almost certainly fake? 

whs

wts

Oh, and Nige, you are old

[yawner]

Oh, and Nige, you are old

..yet even I am not senile enough to buy "older copies" of software from China   

[MattC]

Oh, and Nige, you are old

..yet even I am not senile enough to buy "older copies" of software from China   

True enough