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You will see that it is illegal to modify and distribute Microsoft Office, so nobody will do that.
However, check out Portable Open Office. It is free and open source.
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I believe there are a couple programs that let you do it yourself, though neither are free.
A competing portable app launcher comes with a program that can be used to portablize programs, and I do believe they report that MS Office can be portablized. If you have a legal copy of MS Office, and you don't have it installed, you can make it portable in this way. But the EULA says you can only install it once, so you would be in violation to install it both at home and on your flash drive or external hard drive for portability.
Then there's Thinapp, but that costs nearly ten grand. This is one of those apps that people pirate just because the price is so stupidly high; see also Photoshop and, I forget the name... PC Tools? Music mixing program, costs over $25,000? Anyway, apps made with Thinapp are legal to use within the license of the original program, but you have to pony up nearly ten grand. The former option above only costs $40, last I checked.
OpenOffice is good, but it takes too long to start up. Still, it's free and it's already portable. For a word processor, AbiWord is a good alternative to both MS Word and OpenOffice Writer.
Ceedo actually can't do MS Office portably other than version 2000 due to the DRM in Microsoft Office. It can only do the corporate edition which is not available to regular users.
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John T. HallerCeedo actually can't do MS Office portably other than version 2000 due to the DRM in Microsoft Office. It can only do the corporate edition which is not available to regular users.
Interesting, that's not what I heard, but I may have heard wrong. Pretty sure they said MS Office is one of the most common things people use it for, but they may not have said the version... OK, they do show Office 2003 apps in their screenshots, but if you dig deep enough for their application list (which they don't even guarantee, it's recommendations "from users") it does say "Enterprise Edition" for both Office and Outlook.
Oh well, the last Office I really cared for was 2002/XP. 2003 is OK (it's what we use at work, it's got a couple benefits, but they took out Photo Editor, which was a good program) but for my money, OpenOffice.org is more than adequate.
If you pay for ThinApp ($5,000 and up) and then package it yourself for personal use, it can be legal provided you follow the rules of the original software package. But if the license prohibits modification/repackaging, using on more than one PC, attempts to circumvent DRM which ties it to one PC, using it in a virtual machine (this is in some MS licenses and others now for just this reason), etc, then you'd be running afoul of the license.
ThinApp is intended for software publishers (who own the license) to legally repackage and then redistribute their own software. Doing that is legal. And the software is very handy for this purpose.
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You have just joined, so please search for apps before you post.
You will see that it is illegal to modify and distribute Microsoft Office, so nobody will do that.
However, check out Portable Open Office. It is free and open source.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I believe there are a couple programs that let you do it yourself, though neither are free.
A competing portable app launcher comes with a program that can be used to portablize programs, and I do believe they report that MS Office can be portablized. If you have a legal copy of MS Office, and you don't have it installed, you can make it portable in this way. But the EULA says you can only install it once, so you would be in violation to install it both at home and on your flash drive or external hard drive for portability.
Then there's Thinapp, but that costs nearly ten grand. This is one of those apps that people pirate just because the price is so stupidly high; see also Photoshop and, I forget the name... PC Tools? Music mixing program, costs over $25,000? Anyway, apps made with Thinapp are legal to use within the license of the original program, but you have to pony up nearly ten grand. The former option above only costs $40, last I checked.
OpenOffice is good, but it takes too long to start up. Still, it's free and it's already portable. For a word processor, AbiWord is a good alternative to both MS Word and OpenOffice Writer.
I will have a look at the OpenOffice Portable
Ceedo actually can't do MS Office portably other than version 2000 due to the DRM in Microsoft Office. It can only do the corporate edition which is not available to regular users.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Interesting, that's not what I heard, but I may have heard wrong. Pretty sure they said MS Office is one of the most common things people use it for, but they may not have said the version... OK, they do show Office 2003 apps in their screenshots, but if you dig deep enough for their application list (which they don't even guarantee, it's recommendations "from users") it does say "Enterprise Edition" for both Office and Outlook.
Oh well, the last Office I really cared for was 2002/XP. 2003 is OK (it's what we use at work, it's got a couple benefits, but they took out Photo Editor, which was a good program) but for my money, OpenOffice.org is more than adequate.
What makes it legal?
If you pay for ThinApp ($5,000 and up) and then package it yourself for personal use, it can be legal provided you follow the rules of the original software package. But if the license prohibits modification/repackaging, using on more than one PC, attempts to circumvent DRM which ties it to one PC, using it in a virtual machine (this is in some MS licenses and others now for just this reason), etc, then you'd be running afoul of the license.
ThinApp is intended for software publishers (who own the license) to legally repackage and then redistribute their own software. Doing that is legal. And the software is very handy for this purpose.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!