Re: Entourage X on Desktop & Laptop - Two licenses required?

[Lorin Roche]

Title: Re: Entourage X on Desktop & Laptop - Two licenses required?

around 11/30/01 8:00 PM, Eric Hildum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Talk wrote:
Subject: Re: Entourage X on two networked computers
 
> If all you want is an extra screen, why not go directly to that situation?
> Your portable likely has an extra connector to support an external monitor.
> That is what I am doing as I type this – I have the portable connected to an
> extra monitor. Of course, you could also do this with the desktop system, and
> run the portable in target mode so you have access to its files.
 
The idea you suggest is a good one, but I never said that "all I want" is an extra screen. I have two 22 inch screens. What I want is for my software to NOT dictate to me, in an obnoxious way, how to work, and needlessly complicate life. I understand licensing needs, but you don't want to alienate your best customers. I love Entourage and Word for Mac and have sold many, many, many Mac users on the products. It would be a tragedy for me to abandon Office because it has become user-hostile.

Lots and lots of people have a desktop and a laptop connected, and it is one seamless workspace. If you interfere with how people live and work, you are going to limit your relations with your market. Office for Mac will get a reputation, "Oh, Office is good if all you do is exchange files with Windows users all day, but if you have a desktop and a laptop, forget it. Use another product, because Office will always be quitting on you."

This is an opportunity for the Mac unit to solve something - to exist within Microsoft and obey ms's needs for rigorous registration, and also adapt to the actual way that people use computers.

Lorin