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pretty weak I'd say
I must have missed Office on my win95 disk. Maybe it was packaged that way with a computer you bought?
But these are weak examples. I've never heard anyone else say they got office for free and I think it's great MS gives you a dev. version of SQL Server. They can't give away their enterprise version. They don't hide the fact one is free, and all others are more expensive..std through enterprise. But I use the developers edition. I paid 40 bucks for it at the time....has everything Enterprise version does except only single user version. I'm still using it and loving it today for development work. 40 bucks is not bad for the full enterprise level functionality. MS has never made is a secret they are a normal American Capitalist business.
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