| yorkietalkjilly | 10-05-2013 12:56 PM |
I think MS Word Starter 2010 was just a year or two experiment but MS didn't like it because so many who didn't do a lot word processing, office work at home, etc., were happy with it as it came free loaded on the computer, wasn't this huge program of extra's they don't need as Office is so they didn't upgrade to Office for a couple hundred or whatever it costs and pay MS any more money. So I doubt they even offer it now on new computers as too many people liked it as it was and wouldn't buy Office; so now they probably just load a trial of Office & then you'll have to upgrade to it in a while like in the old days. So if you do get a new computer, you'll prob. have all things like you are used to in a temporary Office program and if you upgrade, you'll just get more extra's and support.
Word Starter 2010 was fine until the September Windows Update and then they tweaked it so our old docs wouldn't open at all, we can't open new documents as Word documents and have to choose Rich Text Format and I don't know if it behaves in the same way as Word docs do. But supposedly many have called Microsoft and gotten things worked out while others were unhappy and got little help. Thankfully with this virtual manager I can open and work in and save my old Word docs but just can't start a new one.
That is so crazy that they would do this to us Word Starter users and try to force everyone to go buy Office or rent it for $99 a year like so many said they did since they didn't have the time or inclination to look for help on the internet which can take hours until you find the right answer! Some claim the next Windows Update should have a patch to fix all of this but Microsoft hasn't said a word that they are doing that as far as I know. We'll see what happens but if worst comes to worst, maybe Rich Text Format docs are just as flexible as Word docs. | 