{"id":239,"date":"2013-03-06T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/?p=239"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:06:39","slug":"microsoft-office-2013-a-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/2013\/03\/06\/microsoft-office-2013-a-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office 2013 &#8211; a U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote a slightly less than complimentary post about Microsoft&#8217;s seemingly draconian and frankly dumb licensing terms for full retail Office 2013. And it seems mine was not the only dissenting voice. Microsoft have (for the first time that I can ever remember) listened to the global wailing and gnashing of teeth and issued this complete about-face:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-restores-transfer-rights-for-retail-office-2013-copies-7000012200\/\" title=\"ZDNet article - Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights for Retail Office 2013.\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet article &#8211; Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights for Retail Office 2013.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay for people power. And yay for common sense! Although I still think it should cost a lot less than it does when LibreOffice is available fer nowt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote a slightly less than complimentary post about Microsoft&#8217;s seemingly draconian and frankly dumb licensing terms for full retail Office 2013. And it seems mine was not the only dissenting voice. Microsoft have (for the first time that I can ever remember) listened to the global wailing and gnashing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[20,18,19,23,22,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}