On 12/01/2001 18:41, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. In truth, if you had one office 2001 license, and had word running on one machine, and e'rage on another, you were violating the license. Office is a single product, with four components, not four products under a single name. If that is the reason you would 'abandon' office, and wish to call it user hostile, that is of course, up to you. But that's they way the license is. It's only now that M$ is tracking it. > > 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." Um...two machines is two machines. It's nice that you use it in that unified of a manner, but they are two machines. Running two copies of Office, (and go ahead and install *just* the Entourage executable and run that if you think they are separate products) requires two copies of office. It's in the license, in pretty clear terms. It was the same way for 98 and 2001. Office is Office. If you want just Word, wait and see if they release just Word. > > 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. So...Microsoft should give you a two for one deal, because 'that's how I use my computer'? Hmmm...so if I'm running a cluster of 50, as one machine, then I should get 50 for one, because I'm running them in a seamless fashion, and 'that's how I use my computer'? john -- "Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer." - Major Holdridge, 1994 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
