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[Oh Shoot]

On my old one I have MS Office. I don't want to buy that again or upgrade. We just don't use it enough to justify the capabilities it brings to the table. We do need a word processor and excel from time to time.

What online options are there?...

Not "online" but Open Office, of course.

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

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[Guest db99wj]

Not "online" but Open Office, of course.

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

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THATS what I was trying to remember. I couldn't think of it and everytime I googled, I would get their new version of online word, spreadsheets etc.

Thank's OS.

I also have looked at Eudora for email. I'm a fan of Firefox anyway.

I might look at Google Chrome for a browser though. Just to see.

[Oh Shoot]

...I also have looked at Eudora for email. I'm a fan of Firefox anyway.

Traditional Eudora has been dead for years, dunno what the newest open source version is like, although it's based on Thunderbird, which was great for a while, until they over-futzed it.

If you want THE stand alone email proggie, try Pegasus. Have used it since DOS days. Completely freeware, always has been.

Pegasus Mail

I might look at Google Chrome for a browser though. Just to see.

Works fine. Quick. Should be, since it's very much stripped down proggie.

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[jcj]

Not "online" but Open Office, of course.

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

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With the recent drama surrounding the Oracle acquisition of Sun and their decision to ditch the lead developers of OpenOffice, I switched to LibreOffice. It is essentially a fork of OpenOffice being developed by the previous Sun OpenOffice developers and sponsored by Novell and the makers of Ubuntu Linux. Essentially identical to Oracle OpenOffice at this point, but I expect it will differ as development continues.

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

Nothing wrong with using either, but I thought I'd add an option to the thread.

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[Guest db99wj]

With the recent drama surrounding the Oracle acquisition of Sun and their decision to ditch the lead developers of OpenOffice, I switched to LibreOffice. It is essentially a fork of OpenOffice being developed by the previous Sun OpenOffice developers and sponsored by Novell and the makers of Ubuntu Linux. Essentially identical to Oracle OpenOffice at this point, but I expect it will differ as development continues.

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

Nothing wrong with using either, but I thought I'd add an option to the thread.

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Options....I like it. Thanks.

[BigK]

trimmed...On my old one I have MS Office. I don't want to buy that again or upgrade. We just don't use it enough to justify the capabilities it brings to the table. We do need a word processor and excel from time to time.

What online options are there?

What version of MS Office did you have on the old PC? If it isn't terribly outdated, you can install it on the new PC. You just cannot have the same product key on multiple "active" desktops or laptops. I ran a student version of Office XP on my current PC, which used to have Vista on it. It ran just fine until I upgraded to some freebies from work.

[Guest db99wj]

Office 2000

[BigK]

That version might be too old, sorry I brought it up.

[Guest db99wj]

Got the box, didn't get the monitor, it comes tomorrow. Set it up, set up the wireless, very fast, nice machine. It does come with MS Works which should be fine for our basic word processing and spreadsheet needs. Got to decide on my email software, or just use the interweb and comcast. My wife is the one that uses it on the desktop, I get mail on my iPhone.

I wonder if the iPhone will sync with MS works calendar. That would be great. Still finding stuff. Glad the kids are grounded, they would be hounding me to get on it. Oh, installed Anti-virus too, Norton.

[peejman]

Oh, installed Anti-virus too, Norton.

After using Symantec's products for years, one of the biggest upgrades I performed on my machine was dumping that and switching to AVG. Norton embeds itself very, very deep into your system and tends to bog it down. When I finally got rid of it, the computer ran like I'd added a turbo.

As for Symantec's performance at protecting the computer... I got 2 viruses in about 7 years. The first one was fixed painlessly. The second was far, far from painless. Symantec had no fix and their software interfered with what I had to buy to get it cleaned. That's what pushed me over the edge to change. YMMV.

Edited December 21, 2010 by peejman

[Oh Shoot]

After using Symantec's products for years, one of the biggest upgrades I performed on my machine was dumping that ...

I swore years ago that nothing Norton or McAfee would reside on any of my boxes ever again.

I sort of relented, and ran Ghost for a while, until it hosed master boot record on an XP machine, twice.

And I admit that I have let McAfee Site Advisor sit as browser add on for some time.

But no AV apps from either.

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[Guest db99wj]

Norton comes with the comcast deal, it's free. Is it that bad?

My laptop has AVG corp. addition. Might look into the free version.