Windblows product key recovery, MS Office, etc.

[Daniel Villarreal]

I usually indicate the company name Microsoft or an abbeviation when
referring to their products, i.e. Microsoft Windows or MS Windows.

You may wish to try running Microsoft Office in GNU/Linux, please check out
https://appdb.winehq.org/
and perhaps
https://www.codeweavers.com/

and to make things real interesting, you might check out http://www.reactos.org/
You could potentially run stuff in a virtual machine under Ubuntu (no
guarantees, but it's worth a try)

kind regards,
Daniel Villarreal
http://www.youcanlinux.com/

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
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> A few years ago when I raised the same concerns about LO .docx
> compatibility I was advised to distribute my resume in .pdf format.
> I've never had any issues with that.  If recruiters insist on a
> proprietary Microsoft format then save it in Word97 format; it's
> simpler and reverse-engineered in greater depth.
>
>
> An aside: As a moderator for this list I've seen a flurry of
> unsubscriptions in the last couple of days. I noticed one of these
> people mention on an unrelated IRC channel that he'd unsubscribed
> because the Ubuntu list was now discussing how to recover Microsoft
> Windows product keys. So perhaps this discussion should be moved to
> one of the Windows support forums, perhaps
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us
>
> And if non-Ubuntu operating systems are brought up, be respectful and
> use their correct names, not derogatory ones like "Windblows".
>
> - --Bob.
>
>
> On 19/10/14 01:37 PM, Noah Tellin wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips on the online Word Editor and such. That might
>> be useful if I have more issues with Windows (a safe bet).
>>
>> I never had problems opening any resume or docx file that I had
>> created in LibreOffice except in Word. The problem was getting a
>> product key from files copied from a Windows partition so I could
>> install MS Office on a different computer while I take my time
>> fixing the computer from which I had copied the files. Not that I
>> want to use MS Office, but I paid for it, and haven't had it
>> running since June, when Windows 7 went into a coma on my
>> dual-booted ThinkPad. Recruiters unable to open my resume is, I
>> think you'll agree, a serious [problem when job hunting.
>>
>> Recruiters and other people could not open my resume when it had
>> been saved as docx from LibreOffice, and neither could I when I
>> did get Word running. I could see the content of the docx I had
>> created with LibreOffice in that software just fine. MS Word didn't
>> like the output (how convenient).
>>
>> The tools that are frequently suggested for getting the product
>> keys did not work as promised. ProduKey would not grab the keys
>> from the connected USB drive and I could not get it to find
>> anything even in the files copied to the same hard drive. It only
>> gave me keys for installed software on the local machine. Another
>> product gave me incredible detail on the local machine, including
>> a bunch of product keys, but had no means to grab anything from
>> another source, or way to change that. Even a registry editor
>> wouldn't do it. Much sleep was lost, to no avail.
>>
>> I did get a product key through my MS account and downloaded Office
>> over the net and got it to install, but with a bunch of
>> connectivity-related issues that I had to resolve the next day.
>>
>> I'm going to save to the older .doc format for my cv and resume
>> from now on, as there has been much more time for reverse
>> engineering that. I prefer PDF, but many employment agencies
>> insist on MS format for their automated resume scanning tools. I'll
>> have to update a Word docx version in MS Word if I want to send
>> anything out in that file format.
>>
>> When I see an employer that explicitly accepts resumes in ODT I
>> want to do a happy dance. It is a too-rare occurrence.
>>
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