WINDOWS QUESTION....SOMEONE PLEASE REPLY

[echospirit]

Ok, I have to buy Word. It's gonna be $120 bucks. Silly me assumed that the software came with the overpriced PC. Is Bill Gates not rich enough??? I have 2 friends who need it too, so can we buy one copy and all use it or will it self destruct or some shit once it is downloaded? What can I do to NOT have to pay the insane $120 bucks??? I Know

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[_silverrain_]

http://www.openoffice.org/

It's BETTER than Word, in my opinion, and you can save your documents in Word format. It warns there can be compatibility issues, but I haven't come across any. You can d/l it, create a Word document, and then email it to someone with Word to test it out. That'd be a helluva lot cheaper than buying Word.

[echospirit]

I am almost afraid to try it.... As long as things get sent in .doc format it will be fine. Will it work with Vista?

[_silverrain_]

When I said compatibility issues, I meant that the .doc's might look different in Word than OpenOffice. It works fine with Vista, as I installed it on a friends Vista Laptop a while back. =-)