D-tail: i never use office applications at all so i don't know 
EDIT:well, i downloaded and installed it in a few minutes, and gave it another try..
it isn't that slow. only loading the entire application takes a while
DarQ:
IMO the only disadvantage of openoffice - and other freeware alternatives, including non-office programs of course - is often compatibility.
Just try to give other people your documents written with openoffice, or the other way round, getting MS Office written docs (which is more common in my case).
The other person gets a different document due to compatibility...
Well it's in some way a vicious circle: (Sometimes) You'll have to use MS Office because many other use it.
And even worse, nowadays Office & co. is often included with new computers! 
Poisonic:
Eummm.. don't really understand what your piccy is supposed to say 
Realy ??? its a fake label of solid snake 
its a reprinted label on the real cartridge that did not had a solidsnake label
so i guess
if i was stupid enough i could rip of people on ebay people would believe what they see i guess ....
I know NO-ONE personal who uses and owns a legal windows.
I do. In general, legally owning software is much less bothersome. Especially for the OS, I’m not going to jeopardise my day-to-day working system with a risk of not being able to use it anymore, or keep it secure. Besides, I use it so often, I think I they’ve earned their money fair and square.
But ok, yeah, twas available for cheap because I’m a student 
. Nevertheless, I’m not too to pay for something, and I have legal copies of most of the software I use regularly.
FiXato, about student licenses: they are for academic and non-profit use, afaik, but they’re not void once you graduate... I mean, with the average product lifespan, that would hardly be worth the effort to enforce (quite bothersome, actually). Of course, you can’t use them for commercial purposes. In any case, I’m not about to graduate anytime soon, so I guess that’s a good thing ;p.
~Grauw
Regarding OpenOffice and compatibility: I really hardly do word processing, really, but at work I use OpenOffice to read and edit Microsoft Office documents on occasion, and so far I haven’t encountered much problems with it... So aside from the slow startup times (which I can live with, if it makes me more legal) it’s a decent software package.
But really, why would you possibly want to use Word or OpenOffice when you can markup beautiful semantic XHTML! It’s 100% compatible, and anyone can read it. And it’s much more fun to play with ^_^.
~Grauw
But really, why would you possibly want to use Word or OpenOffice when you can markup beautiful semantic XHTML! It’s 100% compatible, and anyone can read it. And it’s much more fun to play with ^_^.
~Grauw
but.... then ppl would have to miss out on that MARVELLOUS MS WORDART!
</sarc>
FiXato, about student licenses: they are for academic and non-profit use, afaik, but they’re not void once you graduate... I mean, with the average product lifespan, that would hardly be worth the effort to enforce (quite bothersome, actually). Of course, you can’t use them for commercial purposes. In any case, I’m not about to graduate anytime soon, so I guess that’s a good thing ;p.
~Grauw
well, that is what the license said which was offered by my school a couple years ago
I agree though, it would be to bothersome to enforce.
well i have all windows original even winxp is registred in my name @ microsoft and it dit not cost me a penny
nice ;)
I can't tell that's a fake sticker;
I guess this one's more obvious:
Also a real cart though....