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Outlooked Office for Mac 2011 unveiled

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@BNP

Possibly because they need to use Outlook (at least) and the rest of the Office tools in order to do their jobs?

I have a personal MacBook and a company Windows Laptop. Can't remember the last time I booted up the company machine to be honest. I have Windows installed on a parallels install that has Office and the server apps I need to run, but to be honest, if all I'm wanting to do is email or work on some documents then its a royal pain in the ass to have to start the Windows partition and then wait to launch the apps (and the subsequent performance hit due to running in a VM).

... and yes, I've tried iWork and I have OpenOffice installed, but to be honest, they just don't really cut it....

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Apple seeks OS-jacking advert patent

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Double edged sword?

Hmm ... part of me is hoping that this is being done purely to prevent others from patenting the tech/idea, thereby presenting ad-free operating systems for the rest of my natural life at least.

However, part of me is really quaking in fear at the abuse that a patent such as this allows the OS manufacturer to get away with.

Let's be quite clear ... any (and I mean any) OS that starts to push asvertising in my direction as part of the OS will in no short order become an OS that I will never - repeat - never consider using in any of its myriad guises at any point from there onwards. The day I run out of ad-free operating systems is the day that I finally become a true Luddite and renounce anything electronic at all.

If it's free - then fine, support it by advertising. If it is paid for then fu*k off ... I've paid for the privilege of having a fully paid up, ad free copy of the OS/software in question. Anything else is purely taking the piss..

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