HP Laptop & Microsoft

toothache · 06-23-2008, 02:38 PM

Hope i have this in the correct forum.

I recently bought a new HP laptop and found after a short time that the microsoft office products were trial only and have now ran out. As i paid over £600 for the laptop i was quite disgusted that microsoft had only given the trial version so i contacted HP. They told me to contact the seller,which i did and they told me i could obtain the serial key to activate the products from them but would have to pay,either this or convert online and pay too. It's like i am being held to ransom and it makes me so mad to think they'd do this. 420 euro's £390 is a disgrace but what else can i do?

I even resorted to trying a friends office 2007 key but it didn't work. Am i forced to pay..even though as far as i am concerned,for the price of the laptop the full product should have been included.

Is it Microsoft or Microskank?

spud.dups · 06-23-2008, 04:50 PM

Unless you bought Office with your laptop you will have to purchase it separately. The "ransom" you speak of is a great money maker. I would recommend using OpenOffice.org. In the latest 3 Beta release they have docx support, that would allow you to open all of the things that you have been working on in Office.

06-23-2008, 02:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
toothache Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 9 OS: WINDOWS 98SE	HP Laptop & Microsoft Hope i have this in the correct forum. I recently bought a new HP laptop and found after a short time that the microsoft office products were trial only and have now ran out. As i paid over £600 for the laptop i was quite disgusted that microsoft had only given the trial version so i contacted HP. They told me to contact the seller,which i did and they told me i could obtain the serial key to activate the products from them but would have to pay,either this or convert online and pay too. It's like i am being held to ransom and it makes me so mad to think they'd do this. 420 euro's £390 is a disgrace but what else can i do? I even resorted to trying a friends office 2007 key but it didn't work. Am i forced to pay..even though as far as i am concerned,for the price of the laptop the full product should have been included. Is it Microsoft or Microskank?

06-23-2008, 04:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
spud.dups Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 OS: WinXP Pro, Ubuntu 8.04	Re: HP Laptop & Microsoft Unless you bought Office with your laptop you will have to purchase it separately. The "ransom" you speak of is a great money maker. I would recommend using OpenOffice.org. In the latest 3 Beta release they have docx support, that would allow you to open all of the things that you have been working on in Office.