I would have to say that MS Office is not worth paying for.
#Microsoft office and student 2007 software
Either way, Raikes’ comments completely destroy the line about pirated software being equivalent to lost sales if it actually were, Raikes would be telling people to pirate the software of Microsoft’s competitors. Of course, this moderate stance seems at odds with the company’s recent hyper-aggressive anti-piracy push, which resulted in many mistaken piracy accusations. The company recently got a stark reminder of this lesson when a school in Russia said it would switch to Linux to avoid future hassles with the pirate police. He said the company wants to push for legal licensing, but doesn’t want to push so hard so as to destroy a valuable part of its user base.
He cited the above reasoning, noting that users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from the company later on. Jeff Raikes, head of the company’s business group, said at a recent investor conference that while the company is against piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate Microsoft software. Now the company is stating more clearly that it knows there are some benefits to piracy. This latter point is something that even Bill Gates has admitted, even while Microsoft continues to talk tough about cracking down on piracy. Furthermore, the argument ignores the fact that companies actually benefit in some ways from piracy, because a user of pirated software is likely to purchase software from the same maker at some point down the road.
For one thing, there’s no reason to think that a given user of pirated software would have actually purchased a legitimate copy. Tue, Mar 13th 2007 12:24am - Joseph Weisenthalįor some time, big software companies have tried to make the argument that a copy of pirated software is equivalent to a lost sale This is pretty ridiculous for a couple reasons.
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