:The Boston Globe: A Free, Easy Alternative to Office
The Boston Globe: A Free, Easy Alternative to Office Sep 8, 2004, 03 :15 UTC (20 Talkback[s]) (7645 reads) (Other stories by Michelle Johnson)
"Hoping to get some work done on a recent train trip to New York, I kicked back, opened my laptop, and clicked on Microsoft Excel. Up popped a prompt asking for the original program disk. Same thing with Word and PowerPoint. Nothing would run.
"Who the heck travels with their original program disks? I was dead in the water, left with nothing to do but play solitaire..."
