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Posted Thursday 2nd August 2007 19:11 GMT
Dillon Pyron

Re: Has anyone actually bought Works?

I have a friend who almost did. I had a spare copy of Office 2K lying around, so I mailed it to her. I bought it OEM through one of those pricing engines. I think I paid $35 for it. Probably got ripped off. MInd you, this was before OO had really taken off.

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