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If I buy and install this subscription based version of Office Family, does it simply add any improved feature updates to the included Office apps over the existing Microsoft Office Professional Plus version software already on the computer? If at the end of this 15 month subscription, and decide NOT to resubscribe to Office Family, do I have access to the original Microsoft Office Professional Plus that was present on the computer prior to installing Office Family?

What are the Pros and Cons and me installing this subscription based system on top of the existing Microsoft Office Professional Plus I already have?

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback. But thanks for trying with that simple Microsoft Pravda Propaganda link enticing users to go with subscription based software. You will have to ask the retailer if Office Professional is really a full version or if it is just a trial version. You’re right. I’m sorry. I guess I kinda snapped cause you were snide to me first. I should have taken the high road.

Please accept my sincere apology. I’m also sorry that you were so offended by the use of the term “full-blown,” as you have once again referred to that term, even though I have clearly removed its usage from my original post, prior to your most recent reply, I should have stated the correct terminology for the software that I have currently installed:. So to everyone else that is following this thread, and who may have the same questions or concerns that I have I’m sure I’m not the only one that is in this situation , has my questions as posted been answered to your satisfaction?

Does anyone here have their favorite Go-To site or forum they refer to with Office related issues? Is there a telephone number that I can reach out to Microsoft directly so I may speak to a Microsoft professional to seek the answers to my questions; something similar to what Apple has thru their Apple Care program? Thanks again, and again I’m sorry to everyone who may have been offended or hurt by this exchange.

In theory, you can install “over” , but don’t. In the past it was doable. But, recently, we have seen that Office’s decision to use the same version number So it is probably best to do a “simple” uninstall of before installing It will potentially save confusion and angst in the future. Your license is “permanent”, so if you decide to jump off the milk train you would be able to re-install it in the future.

But, you’ve already paid for , so unless you NEED the other “advantages” of , it becomes a net loss until reaches EOL in I’ve seen mention of the costco offer before. It is a really good deal, you are not likely to see better. There is a second offer you can try to take advantage of.

If you are lucky, this will trigger an “offer” of an extra “free” month if you turn it on. Turn it On, submit your key to get the extra month I believe it shows up immediately in your expire date. Turn it off, start the process to submit the next key. If you are doing this, you can only submit 3 keys initially.

Then you have to wait 4 months before you can submit the 4th one to get the full 5 years 4 months you would be “entitled” to. If you do buy more than 4 costco keys, keep the extras in a safe place. And keep your userid and password in your will. If you get hit by the proverbial bus, you want your family to be able to continue using the subscription.

Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, redeem, activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member. I currently have installed the Microsoft Office Professional Plus These are just a few questions I have before buying the cheap Costco offer of Office Family. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Perhaps this article will help explain the differences. Note that Office is not “full blown” compared to Microsoft How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Didn’t answer a single question I asked. Hoping I can get some answers to my questions as posted. Stefan Blom MVP. No reason to be snide. Microsoft Family will always be the most up-to-date because it’s a subscription.

The individual apps will receive feature updates. It also allows you to share your subscription with five other people and you get expanded OneDrive space. You can also install it on as many devices as you own and use it on up to five of those devices simultaneously. Office is a one-time license for a single person and can be installed on exactly one computer and only once on that computer.

While it will receive security updates, it will not get feature updates. No additional cloud storage as well. You should not have both Microsoft and Office installed on the same computer, which means that if there are any applications you need that are in Office , you should not subscribe to Microsoft There is one case where you can have them both installed and that is if Office is an MSI installation and not a click-to-run installation.

MSI installations are generally for Volume License products. I have seen a report that they can both be installed, but that it can interfere with the Office license detection. It’s not certain to me whether or not you can uninstall Office , use Microsoft for a subscription period, then uninstall it and reinstall Office Reason says you can, but I’ve seen Microsoft documentation that says you can install it only once and other documentation that says you can reinstall.

So, in the end, Microsoft is the “full-blown” version and I do think I’ve answered the questions you included, some of which were answered by the article to which I originally directed you. I’m also sorry that you were so offended by the use of the term “full-blown,” as you have once again referred to that term, even though I have clearly removed its usage from my original post, prior to your most recent reply, I should have stated the correct terminology for the software that I have currently installed: Microsoft Office Professional Plus So to everyone else that is following this thread, and who may have the same questions or concerns that I have I’m sure I’m not the only one that is in this situation , has my questions as posted been answered to your satisfaction?

Sorry you though I was snide. I didn’t know what you meant by “full-blown”, so I quoted it, as that was the term you used. I cannot see any title change you may have made when I’m using the Directly platform and not the Microsoft Community platform and so had no idea you had edited your original post. It should install along side Microsoft If volume licensed, then it will need to contain the organization’s activation server periodically in order to stay activated.

Rohn MVP. In reply to Kujoman’s post on August 16, Access is part of Family, I have it, Even I admit there are a few “advantages” to you get the latest bells and whistles, aka “new online features” like dictate that are limited to you get new commands only, such as “Dynamic Arrays” in Excel if you need to install on more than one computer if you can share Family with one or more people you are mobile and need more than the 5GB of free OneDrive space to access current files online a little more secure than using a thumbdrive Disadvantage: You already recognize the long term cost.

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Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices. Issues with ease of use , robustness , and security of the company’s software are common targets for critics. In the s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products. Microsoft was also accused of locking vendors and consumers in to their products, and of not following or complying with existing standards in its software. The company has been the subject of numerous lawsuits , brought by several governments and by other companies, for unlawful monopolistic practices.

Commission case, and it received an million euro fine. On September 14, , Microsoft’s flagship store was shut down by protestors as part of a direct action organized by Close the Camps NYC.

From its inception, Microsoft defined itself as a platform company and understood the importance of attracting third-party programmers. It did so by providing development tools, training, access to proprietary APIs in early versions, and partner programs. Although the resulting ubiquity of Microsoft software allows a user to benefit from network effects , critics and even Microsoft itself decry what they consider to be an ” embrace, extend and extinguish ” strategy of adding proprietary features to open standards or their software implementations, thereby using its market dominance to gain unofficial ownership of standards “extended” in this way.

Microsoft software is also presented as a “safe” choice for IT managers purchasing software systems. The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most independent software vendors would be crazy not to use it.

And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system instead It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO total cost of ownership , our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties [ In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago.

Concerns were raised that this requirement would hinder the use of alternate operating systems such as Linux. In a post discussing secure boot on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft developer Tony Mangefeste indicated that vendors would provide means to customize secure boot, stating that “At the end of the day, the customer is in control of their PC.

Microsoft’s philosophy is to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to make decisions themselves. Gates’ letter provoked many responses, with some hobbyists objecting to the broad accusation, and others supporting the principle of compensation. The Halloween documents , internal Microsoft memos which were leaked to the open source community beginning in , indicate that some Microsoft employees perceive “open source” software — in particular, Linux — as a growing long-term threat to Microsoft’s position in the software industry.

Another concern of critics is that Microsoft may be using the distribution of shared source software to harvest names of developers who have been exposed to Microsoft code, as some believe that these developers could someday be the target of lawsuits if they were ever to participate in the development of competing products. This issue is addressed in published papers from several organizations including the American Bar Association and the Open Source Initiative.

Starting in the s, Microsoft was accused of maintaining “hidden” or “secret” APIs: interfaces to its operating system software that it deliberately keeps undocumented to gain a competitive advantage in its application software products.

On October 10, , Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60, patents. On July 6, , Microsoft announced that it was placing their ECMA and ECMA specifications under their Community Promise pledging that they would not assert their patents against anyone implementing, distributing, or using alternative implementations of.

NET stack not submitted to the ECMA for standardization has been the source of patent violation concerns for much of the life of the project. The concerns primarily relate to technologies developed by Microsoft on top of the. NET and Windows Forms see non-standardized namespaces , i. These technologies are today [ when? In June the Ubuntu Technical Board stated that it saw “no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set.

Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has stated, “We do have some serious concerns about Mono and we’ll continue to look at it with our legal counsel to see what if any steps are needed on our part”, yet “We haven’t come to a legal conclusion that is pat enough for us to make the decision to take mono out”.

In November at an Ubuntu Developer Summit , developers voted to have the Mono-based Banshee media player removed from Ubuntu’s default installation beginning on Ubuntu Mono developer Joseph Michael Shields defended the performance of Banshee on ARM, and also the claims that Banshee was not well-maintained as being a “directed personal insult” to one of its major contributors.

Microsoft ignored unauthorized copying of its own software for their benefit on the long term. While talking about users in China who don’t pay for the software they use in , to an audience at the University of Washington, Bill Gates said “And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.

They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. The practice allowed Microsoft to gain some dominance over the Chinese market and only then taking measures against unauthorized copies. In , by means of the Windows update mechanism, a verification program called ” Windows Genuine Advantage ” WGA was downloaded and installed.

This behavior angered users and generated complaints in China with a lawyer stating that “Microsoft uses its monopoly to bundle its updates with the validation programs and forces its users to verify the genuineness of their software”. A common complaint [50] comes from those who want to purchase a computer that usually comes preinstalled with Windows without a copy of Windows pre-installed and without paying extra for the license either so that another operating system can be used or because a license was already acquired elsewhere, such as through the MSDN Academic Alliance program.

While it is possible to obtain a computer with no or free operating systems, [56] virtually all large computer vendors continue to bundle Microsoft Windows with the majority of the personal computers in their ranges. The claimed increase in the price of a computer resulting from the inclusion of a Windows license has been called the “Windows tax” or “Microsoft tax” by opposing computer users. In , all major OEMs agreed to this restriction. Microsoft does not provide refunds for Windows licenses sold through an OEM, including licenses that come with the purchase of a computer or are pre-installed on a computer.

According to Microsoft’s End User License Agreement for Windows 7 the ability to receive a refund for the operating system is determined by the hardware manufacturer: [61]. By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine its return policy. You must comply with that policy, which might limit your rights or require you to return the entire system on which the software is installed.

Acer Inc. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit. Based on the updated language, vendors refused to issue partial refunds for Windows licenses, requiring that the computer be returned altogether. In some countries, this practice has been ruled a violation of consumer protection law. Microsoft’s market dominance and business practices have attracted widespread resentment, which is not necessarily restricted to the company’s competitors.

In a publication, Dan Geer argued the prevalence of Microsoft products has resulted in a monoculture which is dangerously easy for viruses to exploit. Microsoft has been criticized for the use of permatemp employees employees employed for years as “temporary,” and therefore without medical benefits , use of forced retention tactics, where departing employees would be sued to prevent departure, as well as more traditional cost-saving measures, ranging from cutting medical benefits to not providing towels in company locker rooms.

Historically, Microsoft has also been accused of overworking employees, in many cases, leading to burnout within just a few years of joining the company. The company is often referred to as a “Velvet Sweatshop”, a term which originated in a Seattle Times article, [71] and later became used to describe the company by some of Microsoft’s own employees. For example, the kitchenettes have free beverages and many buildings include exercise rooms and showers.

However, the company has been accused of attempting to keep employees at the company for unreasonably long hours and working them too much. A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in representing 8, current and former employees that had been classified as “temporary” and “freelance”, and became known as Vizcaino v. The Final Settlement [73] came in The case was decided on the IRS-defined basis that such “permatemps” had their jobs defined by Microsoft, worked alongside regular employees doing the same work, and worked for long terms.

A side effect of the “permatemp” lawsuit is that now contract employees are prevented from participating in team morale events and other activities that could be construed as making them “employees”. They are also limited to month contracts and must leave after that time for 6 months before returning under contract. Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas and has joined other large technology companies like Google in recently lobbying for looser H-1B visa restrictions.

Jesse Jackson believes Microsoft should hire more minorities and women. Jackson has urged other companies to diversify their workforce. He believes that Microsoft made some progress when it appointed two women to its board of directors in During the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft , ATL sent a poll to 19 state attorneys general purporting to show that “the public believes state AGs should devote their energy to causes other than Microsoft”.

In June , the AdTI published a report, quickly pulled under the argument that it was a draft version, which contained criticism of the copyleft model and the GNU General Public License. A May press release for the report stated that it would contain arguments suggesting that governments could be threatened by hackers and terrorists who could study potential vulnerabilities due to source availability if it used open source software.

However, the draft contained no references to these topics. The advert featured a newborn baby being launched out of its mother—aging as it flies through the air, and crashing into a gravestone.

It contained the tagline “Life is short, play more. The comparison included the cost of hardware, and put Linux at a disadvantage by installing it on more expensive but poorer-performing hardware compared to that used for Windows.

Microsoft spokesperson Catherine Brooker expressed the belief that the article had been “heavily written” by IBM employees who supported the rival OpenDocument format, though she provided no specific evidence. Internet entrepreneur and Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales described Microsoft’s offer as unethical.

In , it was found that a photo on the Polish version of Microsoft’s business productivity website—which depicted three people of various races during an office meeting—had been edited to replace the head of an African-American man with that of a Caucasian , whilst also failing to edit the person’s hand to match the different skin color.

Microsoft apologized and quickly removed the image. In , Moneylife. Sapkale was accused of breaking his own site’s privacy policy by posting the IP and email addresses of the commenters, while the commenting duo’s failure to declare any interest looked, at best, like astroturfing. In details on a partnership between Machinima.

This is due to the company being tax resident in Bermuda as mentioned in the accounts for ‘Microsoft Round Island One’, a subsidiary that collects licence fees from the use of Microsoft software worldwide. Dame Margaret Hodge , a Labour MP in the UK said, “It is unsurprising — yet still shocking — that massively wealthy global corporations openly, unashamedly and blatantly refuse to pay tax on the profits they make in the countries where they undertake business”.

John C. Dvorak said that in the s, Microsoft classified journalists as “Okay”, “Sketchy”, or “Needs work” and targeted “Needs work” journalists in an attempt to have them terminated. Dvorak said that he was denied information about Windows because he was on a blacklist. Microsoft along with Google, Yahoo , Cisco , AOL , Skype , and other companies has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship. On June 4, , the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre , searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft Bing search engine worldwide.

Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world. Search engines that license results from Microsoft such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo faced similar issues.

Microsoft said the issue was “due to an accidental human error. The director of Human Rights Watch , Kenneth Roth , said he found the idea it was an inadvertent error “hard to believe”. David Greene, Civil Liberties Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation , said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and “egregious mistakes are made all the time”, but he further elaborated that “At worst, this was purposeful suppression at the request of a powerful state.

Microsoft was the first company to participate in the PRISM surveillance program , according to leaked NSA documents obtained by The Guardian [] and The Washington Post [] in June , and acknowledged by government officials following the leak.

Microsoft has denied [] participation in such a program. In a statement, Microsoft said that they “provide customer data only in response to legal processes.

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Именно по этой причине увольнение из АН Б и последующая депортация стали для него таким шоком. Танкадо, как и остальные сотрудники шифровалки, работал над проектом «ТРАНСТЕКСТА», будучи уверенным, что в случае успеха эта машина будет использоваться для расшифровки электронной почты только с санкции министерства юстиции. Использование «ТРАНСТЕКСТА» Агентством национальной безопасности должно было регулироваться примерно так же, как в случае ФБР, которому для установки подслушивающих устройств необходимо судебное постановление.