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Story: Microsoft: Unlicensed Office use is rife

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Vote with your feet

Microsoft's monopoly position as the de-facto file format leads to a pricing policy that is totally out of line with the software's utility to home users. As a result a lot of home copies are pirate. The only reason windows is less pirated is all the arm twisting they have done on the OEM's to police the "windows tax" on new PCs. Who can afford shelling out for office every 4 years to et a load of extra features that they do not need.

In the past when MS office had competition home copy's were ignored as people who have office at home were more likely to support it's introduction at work.

I advise people to look at open office or ability office while at the same time insisting on open file formats that allow free competition.

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