Why Microsoft Office is Expensive

Yesterday, my friend said he wants to buy Microsoft Office 2003 for his office uses, and he asked me wether I know what is the price of the software. I told him it’s expensive, may be he can try to use Open Office, it’s Open Source Software and free.

Open Office has the functions that normal word processing software has. He said, why not check out the price first and decide what to choose later. I told him, a Microsoft Office Pro is RM1070, and he needs 2, one for him and another for the secretary. So, the total would be RM2140.

He reaction was, “Wow, so expensive, I can buy another AMD PC isn’t it?”. I said yes, it’s expensive, because…

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9 responses to “Why Microsoft Office is Expensive”

  1. KY Avatar

    LOL ridiculous.

    you sure u use a legal copy urself?

  2. earl-ku Avatar

    yeah it exp, but if most of your other documents were generated on Office, with lots of formating, opening them up in OpenOffice, will screw them up entirely … yeah believe me, espcially when it comes to tables …

    Microsoft Office will put so much formating codes in there which will would make other word processor shitting their head out …

  3. Paul Ooi Avatar

    mine is special edition 😀

  4. king Avatar

    Open Office more than enough to me…

  5. Brennan Avatar

    Did your computer crash after what you did in that picture?

  6. Paul Ooi Avatar

    Brennan, nope, my laptop didn’t crash.

  7. sam Avatar

    ya. the new Open Office is great. Old one sucks though. Ver 2 Rocks!

  8. SoGua Avatar

    Open Office v2 looks promising,
    should give a try ma.

    Dun always stick with this M$!

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