{"id":17791,"date":"2011-12-28T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2011-12-28T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:01:42","slug":"new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/","title":{"rendered":"New computers no longer come with Microsoft Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote on Facebook tonight, &#8220;So if I buy a new computer now, Microsoft Office (with Microsoft Word for Windows) is no longer included? Is there any typing program included with basic new computers?&#8221; \u00a0Dave Fulton reminded me that Wordpad, a very basic word processor, comes with Windows. \u00a0 Stan Lewis told us, &#8220;Try Open Office &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\">http:\/\/www.openoffice.org<\/a>\/ &#8211; The Free, Open Source Office Suite. \u00a0Completely compatible with MS Office, WordPerfect, etc. and free.&#8221;\u00a0Good to know!<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=New computers no longer come with Microsoft Word?&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=New%20computers%20no%20longer%20come%20with%20Microsoft%20Word?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/new-computers-no-longer-come-with-microsoft-word\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote on Facebook tonight, &#8220;So if I buy a new computer now, Microsoft Office (with Microsoft Word for Windows) is no longer included? Is there any typing program included with basic new computers?&#8221; \u00a0Dave Fulton reminded me that Wordpad, a very basic word processor, comes with Windows. \u00a0 Stan Lewis told us, &#8220;Try Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17794,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}