On 17/09/2020 22.06, Ken Blake wrote:
On 9/17/2020 12:10 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
"Carlos E.R." wrote:

The worst of this is that my friend "needs Word" for working at home
because of the pandemic, thus her employer should be providing any
software needed at their expense, but apparently they will not :-/

You sure MS Word is a mandate dictated by her employer?Â* Maybe she just
thinks it is a mandate from her employer?Â* More likely they just want
her to work on Word documents.


Or create documents in .doc or .docx format. As long as she did, her
employer would be highly unlikely to know what program she was using.

They could look at the properties of the file :-)

No, the demand for Word comes from peer pressure; all other teachers and
parents using Word (I doubt they paid for it), and also the abhorrence
of non-computer-geeks to even try different software.

And I hate the idea of pirating software, I will not do it when there
are alternatives.

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Cheers, Carlos.