04-12-22, 02:13 PM | ||
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although many educators and students can get MS Office for free, it's more convenient to just have your own copy and be free from getting reminded that you need to pay your subscription. (hello Adobe... are you listening?)
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04-12-22, 04:07 PM | ||
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I also hate apps. An app for everything! “Hey, try this on our app!” says [amazon, Harris Teeter, YouTube, etc, etc!] I don’t want a gazillion apps! I just get on my web browser and click through a few different pages, not open and close multiple apps! (There’s my rant. I probably just outed myself as a Luddite or something. Fyi: I still pay bills with checks.) |
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04-12-22, 04:42 PM | ||
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Don't get me started on Adobe! My son needed it for a college class but his laptop was too old to support the current version . He had to buy a new laptop just so he could do this class
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04-12-22, 04:50 PM | |
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What I cannot believe is now they're doing it with car features! I cannot remember exactly what features and I think at this point it may just be BMW, but, say you want your air bags to work, well, is your subscription up to date? (it's NOT for safety features, but still.....)
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04-13-22, 08:14 AM | |
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Yes the Microsoft sub really gets me. True it is good for multiple computers but I only use it on one at the moment.
The other thing is Quicken. I cannot download transactions from my bank or get tech support from them without a subscription. I used to be able to download my transactions from my bank to my computer then from my computer to the Quicken program but I cannot do this anymore without a sub! I don't want to do a direct transfer of info from my bank/credit card/investment company automatically because I don't trust it but why do I need to subscribe to do this manually? Seriously annoying. I did use customer service a few weeks ago, and I must say they were very helpful. The other advantage to the sub is you get updates which would have been helpful because a few years ago my old disk version wouldn't import transactions from my computer at all and the different file formats wouldn't permit a transfer to the new program. I had to set up accounts from scratch. Major PITA |
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