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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just seen this on The Register... > > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/18/equipt_kill_date_confirmed/ > > As rumoured, it looks like Microsoft are killing off their subscription > services for things like MS Onecare and Office 2007 Home and Student. > From the article... > > "It confirmed that Office Home and Student 2007 won’t receive > subscription licence updates and will enter “reduced functionality > mode”. Effectively customers will only be able to view Office documents, > but they won’t be able to create or edit docs via the service." > > So, all those poor saps who bought a PC and were 'upsold' cheaper > 'subscription' versions of MS Office 2007 Home and Student editions will > be effectively left with a bloated Office viewer. > > From what I gather though it only covers the subscription versions of > the software which were about £50 rather than the £100 version. Still, > I'd hate to be one of the poor folks who bought this 'cheap' Office 2007. > > Rob > Looking at this its only the actual customers of equip that are affected, anyway the other articles seem far more interesting charged for downgrade to XP http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/16/microsoft_sued_over_vista_to_xp_downgrade/ also seems that going from vista to win 7 will be easier, going from xp to win 7 won't (so all those who have opted for xp rather than vista, are required to reformat hdd http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/05/windows_xp_7_vista_upgrade/ the latter does help us in a way thanks to wubi people can perhaps go fron xp to ubuntu and or linux much easier, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmdX2EACgkQaggq1k2FJq3HSACgjt/cEtNgpaZwjz3vFMA0szkE 4bEAoI0NzzBlXZEuHzEm85waXSa/Gcsf =I2AJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html