OT: Trial software / expiration (was Re: OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> ...
>> They're the students own computers, and they use the trial MS-Office because 
>> it came pre-loaded on their computer and they don't know any better.
>>
>> And Laura would tell them about OOo, and show how they can open two windows 
>> side-by-side and re-type the paper.  Not the ideal solution, but the 
>> software is free, and they can hire the dorm's fastest typist for a slice of 
>> pizza and a soda.
> 
> Is there something about the files created by the trial MS-Office
> that prevents them from being read by OpenOffice.org?  I haven't
> found any MS-Word files that aren't readable on OOo, even the new
> ``standard'' .docx files.  My wife is running a somewhat out of
> date version of MS-Office for Mac which can't handle some Word
> documents which work fine in OOo.

Laura could give you the details, as I haven't personally seen this "in 
action".  Until recently, OOo couldn't read the new .docx file format, 
though the current versions do.

I suppose I could actually activate the trial version that came with my 
system a couple of years ago, just to see what happens when it expires, but 
I don't see any real need to do so.

-- 
Kenneth Brody