Do you mean you're gonna bring your laptop to office and use? or you want a separate Ori Win XP to be installed in your office pc?

Is your current PC's Windows ori? because from what you mentioned in the first post, you seem to be saying you're using ori Windows XP Home

This post has been edited by rebelsoul76: Nov 27 2008, 12:59 AM

um it's like this. There's no office edition of Windows XP. Only Home and Professional version. Both are legal for office use as long as you have the license sticker on the PC and original installer CD.

but be aware that in order to be able to transfer to another PC, your Windows must be Retail version, not OEM. OEM versions (usually shipped and preinstalled with branded PCs like DELL, HP, etc) cannot be transferred. They must die with the PC it was installed on.

Furthermore, you must also look into other licensed software like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PP, Outlook, etc), unless you're going the open source (free) way using Open Office.

XP retail version if i'm not mistaken, can be activated a few times (not simultaneously). But after that, you will need to call Microsoft to activate it.

not sure about the price. I can't find retail version in Lowyat shops' pricelist. Maybe you can give them a call or put WTB in Garage Sales

btw, it's kind of weird ur just gonna bring 1 desktop to the office. The current office don't have computers? and why just 1 unit...

true, but it would be good for her knowledge. Any more questions, buttercup?

cos he's the one that installs it for them?

Maybe you can try Open Office first, since it's freeware. See if you like it or rather you can work using it. It's quite powerful and can even save files in .PDF format on its own.

Other alternatives are online office applications in a browser: http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...ticleId=9007884
which mostly are still being developed and may have limitations compared to MS Office. You can download trial versions to check them out. I'm sure the full versions would be much cheaper than MS Office.

oii don't ignore my post la. try first

btw, there's a few versions of Microsoft Office too.

also, if you want to open Microsoft Word 2007 .docx documents without Microsoft Word 2007 itself, can try reading this thread: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/858387

This post has been edited by rebelsoul76: Nov 28 2008, 06:55 PM

or get a personal laptop that you can bring back and forth, then it doesn't have to have original OS. Or original OS already bundled in the price of laptop

This post has been edited by rebelsoul76: Nov 28 2008, 10:39 PM