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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 617508" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>It's not legal to be sold without hardware. In fact, a lot of retailers will require you to buy hardware with it for that reason - even if it's an old, dead floppy drive. Not sure if M$ has relaxed that rule in recent years or not, but that used to be the case.</p><p></p><p>OEM software is not limited to M$ either, lots of other companies have OEM editions of their software out there. Easy CD/DVD Creator, Nero and PowerDVD are some examples off the top of my head.</p><p></p><p>As far as Office 2003 goes - take a look at NeoOffice (<a href="http://www.neooffice.org" target="_blank">http://www.neooffice.org</a>). It's a Mac-native port of OpenOffice and fully compatible with MS Office document formats. It actually looks and feels more like MS Office 2003 than MS Office 2004/2008 for Mac (IMO).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 617508, member: 24098"] It's not legal to be sold without hardware. In fact, a lot of retailers will require you to buy hardware with it for that reason - even if it's an old, dead floppy drive. Not sure if M$ has relaxed that rule in recent years or not, but that used to be the case. OEM software is not limited to M$ either, lots of other companies have OEM editions of their software out there. Easy CD/DVD Creator, Nero and PowerDVD are some examples off the top of my head. As far as Office 2003 goes - take a look at NeoOffice ([url]http://www.neooffice.org[/url]). It's a Mac-native port of OpenOffice and fully compatible with MS Office document formats. It actually looks and feels more like MS Office 2003 than MS Office 2004/2008 for Mac (IMO). [/QUOTE]
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