Paolo, First off, every company has periodic changes in ui and features when they upgrade. I'd be concerned if somebody was offering me an upgrade that looked and worked exactly like the previous version. Also, using the term steal in regards to discounted prices is more than a bit inflammatory. Second, schools are verry good marketing targets. If students grow up using one particular office suite, chances are that they'll continue using that suite. Almost all of the Apple fans I met came out of university graphics arts programs. Add in the student discount rate and the odds of the person purchasing that program on their own being very low, and you've got a very good success rate. It sounds to me like your school does not have a well thought out upgrade protocol. This would be true whether or not they were on MSO, LO, OO, etc
On 11/29/2013 2:57 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: > hi. I work in a state school, using ms windows and ms office... i think I > know the policy of microsoft. I think they use a sort of (apparent) > programmed obsolescence for the software. I mean: periodically they add a > new version with some changes in interface, macro programming, functions and > file structure, which is installed on new computers. the new version is > voluntarily incompatible with the previous ones. It's a matter of marketing, > not innovation. where I work, people are always complaining that what works > on a computer (files, macro etc..) doesn't work on another. the school, on > the other way, doesn't want to spend money on new software licenses (very > expensive in italy). so, why don't they change ? they don't know enough > about LibreOffice; they would need demonstrations or some training (some > training is done, but always on ms office, I don't know which version... are > they trained every new version?), I guess... I > think microsoft did the same politics with charities and schools: > discounted prices (but they are still stealing money somehow...). other > software producers (autodesk) are doing similar things... schools are good > marketing targets... ideas? > > > > > On Friday, November 29, 2013 8:31 PM, John Meyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I didn't know we considered trialware "cunning". > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Knott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Tom Davies wrote: >>> Also on newer machines MS have started running a cunning scheme >>> whereby people get to use a trial version of MS Office which then >>> stops working after a month or so. In order to keep on using it >>> people have to pay an extra bit. >> >> That happened to a friend of mine about 3 years ago. She's now running >> OpenOffice. >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted > >> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
