(This has happened, sporadically, for years with Outlook.) Kingsoft Office 2013 Free has nearly all the same features as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - but it's free.īut you know what? I can migrate that PST straight to Gmail, and then just get used to Gmail's ugly Web interface. But just the other day it was producing oddball password-error messages for one of my Gmail accounts, even though I had no trouble signing into that account on the Web. Plus, I have a PST file containing years' worth of email. The only reason I've continued using Office 2013 at all is Outlook, which is actually pretty nice in this version. The alternative: pay Microsoft $70 or $100 annually for tools that are far beyond my needs - and that apparently crash and burn when you try to add a new one. It's pretty, capable, and more than sufficient for my everyday-user needs (which amount to word processing, occasional spreadsheets, and once-in-a-blue-moon presentation viewing). But for nearly a year I've been using Kingsoft Office Free 2013, which I consider the best Microsoft Office alternative. It expires next month, so I was already planning my Office exit, so to speak. Uh, math isn't really my strong suit, but there's something amiss with those numbers.įull disclosure: My Office 365 installation came courtesy of Microsoft, a one-year demo license for journalists. Yep, it's a subscription option, same as the newly rechristened Office 365 Home, which costs $100 and comes with five licenses. Because I've had it up to here with this kind of nonsense (which is way politer word than I'd be using if this wasn't a family blog).Įarlier this week I was already feeling a bit insulted by Microsoft's introduction of Office 365 Personal, which gives you a single license (for one PC and one mobile device) for $70 - for one year. And you know what? I'm not reinstalling it. In the end, I tracked down a Microsoft Fix-It that allowed me to uninstall Office.
#MS OFFICE ACTIVATOR CNET INSTALL#
So, basically, the simple act of trying to install a Microsoft product fully and irrevocably crippled another Microsoft product. I clicked into Settings and found it still listed among my installed programs, so I tried the Repair option.
I clicked into the Start menu and.whoa! Where's Office? The entire suite had vanished. The icon was gone from the Windows taskbar. Let me just check my email real quick and.whoa! Where's Outlook? Well, no time to mess with this now, I'll come back to it later. The installer quit midway with a cryptic error message. First step, of course: download and install the OneNote client.
#MS OFFICE ACTIVATOR CNET FOR MAC#
So yesterday I decided to write a guide to getting started with Microsoft OneNote, which is now available free for Mac and all versions of Windows.