A local computer teacher said I should not be concerned about MS discontinuing support as of this Thursday. I was considering going to Office 2010 or Open Office, leaning toward the former. Your feedback will be welcome. jim

Google says:"Support for Office 2003 ended on April 8, 2014.Microsoft quietly gave Office 2007 (with Service Pack 3) an extension. Instead of moving into the Extended Support phase on April 9, as was the original plan, Office 2007 now moves to Extended on October 9, 2012. Extended support for the product ends on October 10, 2017." I still have WINDOWS XP-PRO up and going and am using MS OFFICE 2007.I will most likely move to WINDOWS 7 PRO but of course it probably doesn't have a long lifespan as well. You can still purchase WIN 7 from places like AMAZON in plain wrappers but the local computer stores no longer have WIN 7 on the shelf in the MS Packages.I just can't seem to move to the WIN 8 OS system as almost all of my programs will not work on it... Will be a big cost for me to move to WIN 8...Roy Ken

QUOTE: "I just can't seem to move to the WIN 8 OS system as almost all of my programs will not work on it... Will be a big cost for me to move to WIN 8..."And that's one of the major problems with the change W8 puts on us .. it's not just the cost of the OS (or even learning it), it's about quadruple the cost when you buy ALL new auxiliary programs to operate in the new OS. That's a lot bigger bite than a new OS.

I gave up Office and went to the free and fully functional LibreOffice a couple of years ago.Never skipped a beat. Works great and works great with ALL Microsoft office docs, spreadsheets, etc.

Staying with Win 7 Ultimate 64bit and Office 2007. Figure I'm good until I'm "pushing posies.":B

My old copy of Office 2003 loads on every computer I've had since 03. Newer editions are more restrictive. 2003 loads and runs well on Win 8.1. There is an add-on which allows it to read newer docX files. I see no need to worry about "support" for it, and will run with it as long as it suits my needs.

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RoyB
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Apr 28, 2014
Google says:
"Support for Office 2003 ended on April 8, 2014.

Microsoft quietly gave Office 2007 (with Service Pack 3) an extension. Instead of moving into the Extended Support phase on April 9, as was the original plan, Office 2007 now moves to Extended on October 9, 2012. Extended support for the product ends on October 10, 2017."

I still have WINDOWS XP-PRO up and going and am using MS OFFICE 2007.

I will most likely move to WINDOWS 7 PRO but of course it probably doesn't have a long lifespan as well. You can still purchase WIN 7 from places like AMAZON in plain wrappers but the local computer stores no longer have WIN 7 on the shelf in the MS Packages.

I just can't seem to move to the WIN 8 OS system as almost all of my programs will not work on it... Will be a big cost for me to move to WIN 8...

Roy Ken

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