Open Office
marrtin - 13 October 2008 - 12:59pm
Has anyone else noticed that Open Office although still advertised as free, is no longer free? You are prompted to enter credit card details before downloading. Particularly unsavoury is if you don't read the small print and uncheck a check box, you are charged an extra £7.95 for a download of an extra unrelated piece of software that you probably don't want or need.
Is there any free software out there, that like Acrobat Reader just allows viewing of Office documents?
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Isitme - 14 October 2008 - 10:33amI have not noticed this, where were you downloading from? The new Version 3 is available today (14/10) and only requires you to click the download link. Due to demand the site is having difficulties, so you may not get it right away. OO, can open MS Word files.
Available here - http://download.openoffice.org/
TomD
You're definitlely being
Delboy - 14 October 2008 - 12:07pmYou're definitlely being ripped off. Of course it's still free.
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Ah ha, think I ws trying to
marrtin - 16 October 2008 - 10:03pmAh ha, think I ws trying to download a product called Open Office Suite whatever the difference is.
http://openoffice.org-suite.com/2/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_uk&se=google
Seems the server must have been down because if I clicked on other free links, it returned an error, "Permission Denied. you do not have the permission to enter this site".
Thought it was funny, as I had just downloaded it a week before for my daughter's new laptop.
Thanks for the comments.
O-O
Isitme - 17 October 2008 - 4:05pmThe site you used offers support for OO at a premium, that is what they want to charge for. The actual download is exactly the same as the link I gave above.
TomD