windows office: how can I get windows office for this vista or any office xp is compatible with my laptop? please tell me I have windows office xp in a cd.. or how can I get for free the office for this laptop for vista?|||If you want a free alternative check out Open Office. Its every bit as good as MS office, completely compatible with Vista, and its 100% free and legal! You can find it at http://www.openoffice.org|||My lapatop came with Vista and I purchased, online, Microsoft Office 2007 Student & Teacher Version. Paid $125 a year ago. Saw it for sale this weekend for $99. Check around. Can get it here. Just be sure to buy the boxed version with CD and product key. Without a valid, purchased version, you will not be able to update. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url鈥?/a> Totally free and supposedly compatible is Open Office. Open Office 9 http://download-new.com/openoffice/ Open Office tutorial at: http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/ http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tu鈥?/a> OpenOffice.org FAQs: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licen鈥?/a>|||Open Office 3.0 runs just fine on Vista, and it interfaces with MS Office just fine. (My office is a Microsoft shop, but I use OO at home, and I bring documents, spreadsheets, etc., back and forth all the time.)|||Try Open Office. It has just about all the features of Microsoft Office. A free download is available at: http://download.openoffice.org/|||Office XP is not Vista compatible, I don't think. You need Office 2003 or Office 2007. There is no way to get Office for free.|||if you already have a version of office just install it. It will work fine.