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Feeling a bit like I’ve just been financially and intellectually mugged. Treated myself to a new laptop recently and because I am used to using Outlook as my mail client, I forked out £150 for Office 2010. A couple of days later I find Windows Live Mail pre-installed with Windows7, which is much the same as Outlook 2010. Hasn’t Bill Gates earned enough money without treating his customers to such obvious rip-offs?
"Some drink to remember, some drink to forget"
I am sorry that you are distressed, disappointed and disaffected. It’s just when you’re feeling so low that you need friends and community to come round, help you to your feet, give you a nice up of tea, have a whip round to try to cover your financial loss, and generally provide comfort and support.
What you don’t need is people like me casually putting the boot in. Bill Gates is no different to the others in the commercial world, they would all have the shirt off your back as soon as look at you. (Airline fares advertised for £5.12 that really cost £80). The trick is to not let them see you coming, they can spot a novice a mile away. Surely you have family, friends, mates down the pub, mates at work, chums at the bookies or the racecourse who know a little bit about computers and software. Have a chat; “It’s good to talk”; look for advice on the internet.
1. There is nothing to stop you moving your Office, Outlook and other software from your old laptop to your new one. No cost.
2. If you want an email client, don’t use Outlook, use Outlook Express (very similar to Outlook whereas Live Mail is not). Using Outlook is like carrying around a huge toolbox when all you need is one small spanner. Outlook Express is free, even though it’s an official Gatesland product, get one of your techie friends to download and install it for you. And buying Office 2010 to get hold of Outlook is a bit like buying a Snap-On garage size tool chest on wheels when all you need is a small spanner. If you want a full office software suite use Open Office – it’s free and fully compatible with the Gatesland product. No cost.
On the up-side, I can only congratulate you on being such a successful punter that you can afford to shell out £150 on a piece of sofware that anyone in their right mind only ever needs to use about 5% of its functionality.
Further on the up-side, you are a member of TRF. It seems to me there are lots of members who know a fair bit about computers, and they all like to be asked for their opinions. They all certainly love to give out their opinions free of charge. Next time just post a question on TRF before you take the plunge into an unfamiliar market.
Sorry to put the boot in, but it might just help you to remember that its a brutal world out there when people want your money. Get clued up from friends or the internet when you think of spending your money, or someone will take it from you in a flash.
Marginal Value
"What you don’t need is people like me casually putting the boot in"You certainly got that right!
"Kings may be vain but Tam was glorious
O’er a’the ills o’ life victorious!
R Burns."Kings may be vain but Tam was glorious
O’er a’the ills o’ life victorious!
R Burns.Sorry.
If Burns implies a lineage Scot
and you are like yon Tam,
I hope success as punters lot
affords ye many a dram.With raucous song and sorrows drown’d
and life is great for that
the pleasure of the vict’ry found
o’er my charmless know-all pratt.
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