[nfbcs] Office 365 and Sky Drive

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

    Mary's computer was attacked by a Trogen several days ago and had numerous infections. It's currently in the shop being disinfected. It's very possible that the viruses may have corrupted Windows 7 and they may need to rebuild the OS. Dell supplied us with Office 2010 but we did not receive it on disk. Unless the restore image includes Office 2010 we're looking at a Microsoft Office work-around until we can buy a new copy or I can find my version of Office XP. Does anyone know if Office XP or 2003 will run under Windows 7 Home Premium?

    If the answer to the above question is no we're considering subscribing to Office 365 with Sky Drive until we can purchase a copy of Office for that machine that will work under Windows 7. What has been everyone's experience with Microsoft Office 365 with respect to accessibility? Fortunately you get a free trial for a month so we'd be able to experiment with it ourselves. Any tips, tricks, don't-go-there's etc will be much appreciated. Also how usable is Sky Drive? Our understanding is that Office 365 will store data files on Sky Drive. Your plan includes a subscription to Sky Drive for this purpose. Is it possible to upload files from your PC to Office 365 and save them back to a destination other than Sky Drive?

    We're hoping that the techs won't need to rebuild Mary's OS to rid her machine of the viruses. Mean while we're looking at Microsoft Office work-around until we're able to buy a CD  copy to install  on that machine or possibly run Office XP on it.

    The Office 365 site also indicates that this service can only be used under Windows 7 and 8. Are there ways to use it with earlier versions of Windows? My laptop currently runs Windows XP Professional and does not have any version of office on it either. If Office 365 ran under Windows XP problem solved assuming the accessibility hoops can be jumped. Thanks in advance for the feedback.

Peter Donahue

 

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