Dan Lewis wrote:
On Friday 19 January 2007 7:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Mature student about to go in the real world out there, about to
buy new computer on credit with Windows Vista Premium home/Small
Business, need to buy student version of CAD (can't afford the
commercial version), Coreldraw student version also, Microsoft
office Home/Student or Small Business...Suddenly the software
expense is amounting to almost half as much as the hardware I need
! ... and I start raving and runting about how much a rip off this
is and how Win 95 and Win 98 packages included office as standard
and in those days you could get free downloads on other
softwares... so my son told me about openoffice ... great idea ...
happy to make donation ... however my son does not know if
openoffice will be compatible with "Windows Vista" latest Bill
Gates baby ! which seems to come with every offer that fits my
needs, budget and cash flow situation.
I contacted you a couple of days ago and haven't heard from you
yet.
Please help the single mother on a new career path who has to keep
up with computer technology and who is building a headache trying
to do a good job of it on a limited budjet !
Thanks.
Ghislaine
Hear is a copy of your answer as it appeared on the mailing list.
I am providing it since you you're not a member of this list and no
one sent you a copy before.
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OpenOffice.org runs fine on Vista. The current version (2.1) has some
minor bugs that are only annoyances (e.g. OOo uses the "old" file
dialog instead of the pretty(?) new one from Vista). They will be
fixed in OpenOffice.org 2.2
Some problems with system integration (e.g. showing thumbnails and
document property columns in the Explorer) are known that can't be
fixed until Microsoft publishes the necessary interfaces. :-(
But they will not have any impact on running OpenOffice.org. You can
use it on Vista as you can on XP.
Ciao,
Mathias
Hello Ghislaine,
As a parent and former student, I understand you pain of paying for lots
of software.
Depending on the courses, if you don't need the "exact" software, there
are many options for free software to meet your needs. The problem is
many will not work on Windows Vista and from many articles I have read,
I wouldn't purchase a computer with Vista anyways and stick with Windows
XP. It could save you money in the future.
Free windows software links are on this page.
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
I use OpenOffice in a corporation that is focused on Windows and many
users have found OpenOffice better than Word.
--
Robin Laing
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