September 5, 2013

Thanks for "install" Microsoft Office

We use Kingsoft Office, a free alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. During the years we've used it, we've only had a few instances (in the accounting dept, usually) when we've had to buy the 'real' Office mostly due
to complex macros that had to run.

Whenever anybody insists that he need the Microsoft Office, we ask him to justify the expense and it usually turns out to be something along the lines of 'Well, I like it better'. The request is denied and after a few weeks the user realizes that Kingsoft Office is just as good for typing their shopping list.

Well, we have one user who kept insisting that ONLY the latest and greatest Microsoft Office would do, because he was a 'power user' and needed all of the advance features.

I delayed (frankly, I got tied up in something else and honestly forgot his request) until he eventually stopped me in the corridor one day and.... thanked me for installing MS Office for him while he was on vacation!
I was confused, so went to look at his computer. Nope, still had just Kingsoft Office on it. He'd finally opened it for the first time and, power user as he is, never even noticed that it wasn't the Microsoft product. He thought he'd won the game and that we'd given in and bought him Word and Excel.

I just shook my head, told him 'You're welcome' and left it at that. Another satisfied and valued power user.



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