lost product key for Microsoft office Professional 2007

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f1charlie wrote: »

Not so. From Software4students FAQ:

Will my software still belong to me when I leave school or college?

Yes, the license offered to you by Microsoft is a perpetual license and does not expire when you cease to be a student. You can still use the products after you graduate or leave college.

It must be a different license than the academic licenses if you buy direct from university or school then.

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If you are at uni, possibly some schools as well, (and they participate in the appropriate MS programme and most do) you can get a bit of software absolutely free from https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/. In particular some may find useful Visual Studio 2008 Pro (£717 at Amazon) and Expression Studio 2 (about £600). The restrictions are that you're using it for learning/education purposes only. The idea is MS help people train on and get used to these products.

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superscaper wrote: »

If you are at uni, possibly some schools as well, (and they participate in the appropriate MS programme and most do) you can get a bit of software absolutely free from https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/. In particular some may find useful Visual Studio 2008 Pro (£717 at Amazon) and Expression Studio 2 (about £600). The restrictions are that you're using it for learning/education purposes only. The idea is MS help people train on and get used to these products.

It's pretty much how things were when I was studying at university, but it was called the Academic Alliance. I had an entire repetoire of MS products I could simply download and use for the duration of my course and beyond, as long as it wasn't for commercial use. It was just the same time that .Net was coming out and they gave me so much stuff it was running into thousands of pounds worth of software and they even gave me some really neat hardware too.

I've now moved on to a nice MSDN subscription now, which is quite handy to say the least.

Can't beat free and legal software

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be_alright wrote: »

It's pretty much how things were when I was studying at university, but it was called the Academic Alliance. I had an entire repetoire of MS products I could simply download and use for the duration of my course and beyond, as long as it wasn't for commercial use. It was just the same time that .Net was coming out and they gave me so much stuff it was running into thousands of pounds worth of software and they even gave me some really neat hardware too.

I've now moved on to a nice MSDN subscription now, which is quite handy to say the least.

Can't beat free and legal software

The MS Academic Alliance is still going and you can download stuff through the Universities' own specific login pages but Dreamspark is a realatively new thing that works quite differently because you login as an individual using your Microsoft ID passport rather than with a university login and in my experience the software available to me on Dreamspark is different to what's available to me through the MSAA.