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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by Aldo_MX on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:40PM (#11718538) 

  Applies to
  ...
  Windows 8.1 with Bing
I'm perplexed that a windows version "with Bing" exist...
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by HappyTypist on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:52PM (#11718598)
Windows 8.1 with Bing is sold at a very low price with a 100% rebate (I.e it is free).

Google shares ad revenue from bundled searches, if you use Google on Firefox then Mozilla takes 20%. Likewise for Windows OEMs and Apple Safai.

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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by oneloop on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:10AM (#11720660)
Where can I read more about this?
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by rhino369 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:49PM (#11718583)
It's a free version of Windows with Bing installed as the default search engine. Meant to compete with Chromeos.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:29PM (#11718792)
Oh. That explains a lot.

In the spirit of POC||GTFO, I created a user called "testuser" on my work machine (running Windows 8.1) today, and I couldn't reproduce the problem. It seems the missing "with Bing" part may be responsible...

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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by crazypyro on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:39PM (#11719343)
It applies to every version of Windows 8.1, according the docs, not only Windows 8.1 with Bing. To be fair, its an intermittent problem, so could just happen on longer intervals or some other scenario.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by chris_wot on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:09PM (#11719438)
We can't have that. Someone fix that bug and get it to start using up CPU cycles!
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by stevehb on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:07PM (#11718685)
I'm surprised it's not the official name.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by DanBC on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:27AM (#11720715)
It is the official name of that version.
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