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  • The reason they included the Office 2007 trial on your laptop is to motivate you to buy it. Microsoft does not give Office away on new computers - that would impact their sales tremendously. But, you don't have to buy Microsoft Office if you don't want to. There is an alternate office suite of programs available for free (online) that can be used as a replacement for Microsoft's suite. It's called OpenOffice and it is included for free on most Linux distributions. They make a Windows version too. If you want to save money, you can get OpenOffice. If you'd rather use the Microsoft product, aside from pirating it, you could save some money by getting the student / teacher edition or a version with fewer programs. If all you need is Word and Excel for example, they sell a compact version without Access etc.

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