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by bachmeier 1517 days ago
Yep. The move to free software was about much more than the price. Pay for MS Office. Use it on the one machine it was authorized. Need to reinstall? Hope you kept the authorization code. Want to access your data outside of MS Office? Sucker. You stuck it all in their (at that time) proprietary formats. You bought a laptop? Great. Now you can buy another copy of MS Office to go with it.