Just purchased a computer and the trial has expired. Went to walmart and the software was 150 bucks! Anyone have any ideas for a more cost effective way of getting office 2007?
In 2009, Libre Office wasn't even thought of. In fact, I don't even think it was until 2010 that the Oracle acquisition was even completed.This is a review from 2009
You're posting a review from 2009 about office suites, which I don't see as being entirely relevant considering the office suite I suggested was developed after 2009...Not to start an argument, but where are you coming from? Who cares what year Libre came about, or what detractive of StarOffice is better. The original question that the OP asked was regarding their license for MS Office 2k7 expiring, that came with their computer.
I agree. Open source software is likely to always take a back seat until things speed up and it gets more into the lime light. It's beginning to happen with several organizations, colleges, and school districts in my area. With other organizations, such as the New York Stock Exchange, it's always been a standard. I was only advocating on behalf of Libre Office based on personal experience in regard to the success I've had with it, along with the places I've seen it running live at. In fact, when we were migrating to Libre Office in some of our labs, we were also tinkering with Office 07 over top of Office 03. We had less compatibility issues going from MS Office 03 to Libre than we did MS Office 03 to MS Office 07. Damn...Personally, until there is more adoption in the open source market, products like Libre Office/star office/lotus office suite, will always take a back seat to Microsoft's Office Suite. Now of course, with the online options like Google Doc's, and MS's Office 365, there is no need for these products.