Student? Get Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for under £40

Bob_the_Builder_5

If you are employed and use MS Office at work, ask your IT department about Microsoft's Home Use Program.

You can get a copy of Office on DVD for something like £17.50 for your own use at home.

The thinking behind this is that Microsoft has realised that the average punter isn't going to fork out hundreds of pounds on Office, and they would far rather you had a legit copy than a dodgy pirate copy from a boot sale.

bigb_3

is there a Mac version available?

Firdonthor

dt9546 wrote: »

and a quick dumb question, will i be able to install this on both my laptop and desktop computers ?

This question doesnt seem to have been directly addressed, i know the original post says its for 1 machine only, nut i cant find that clause anywhere on the website we're directed to, can someone please confirm as its useless to me unless i can use it on both

Dee140157

I have just looked on the software4students site and discovered my daughter's school is registered. As a result it appears I can buy Microsoft Office professional plus for £52.83. This seems a great deal. I know I can download open office, but as my children are doing various IT exams and have to have compatability with school etc I feel it is safer to stick with Microsoft Office in the meanwhile. New computer arrives at the end of the week.
In answer to bigb there is Microsoft 2004 mac professional on the site which I assume is for a mac. It costs £50.69 Hope that helps.

mbyrne01

How about £31.99 for the complete software for anyone? You only get the software through download (500Mb - be warned) so I guess that keeps the cost down. This is NOT limited to students and seems to work. I have no reasonn to believe that it is anything other than genuine. I know it's advertised through Google, so hopefully Microsoft would have stopped them if it's not legitimate.

http://www.exisoftware.co.uk/

gloucesteroldspot

It appears that anyone who pays anything like the full price for Microsoft products is bonkers - and of course they are pirated all over the place- couldn't Microsoft just -doh- lower the price? Or am I missing something?

michael_iain_elliott

Anybody at the University of Aberdeen (staff and students) can get Microsoft Office 2003 Professional for free (along with Sophos antivirus and other things).

Visit http://www.abdn.ac.uk/local/download

Be warned, anyone trying to access this from the outside of the university will be required to enter a username and password (the university u/n and p/w of course) so anybody who isn't a student at UoA cannot get this. Just in case anyone here is at the UoA and thinking about buying this at the ridiculous price MS charge.

I think most universities do provide this service, but I didn't find it til recently at my institute and I've been a student there for 5 years! Wasn't until I worked on the Wireless Helpdesk that I found it. Don't think it's widely publicised.

HTH,

Mike

hubris

I saw this a few weeks ago, and posted my thoughts on Lifehacker : http://lifehacker.com/software/back-to-school/-299397.php

Another lifehacker poster put it well - "it's not a saving if you weren't going to buy it anyway". Us in the IT world have a keener understanding of what Microsoft are doing, and how they are holding us by the 'nads with their proprietary file formats. They want to keep us locked into using their products, compared to OpenOffice and the like, who use an internationally recognised file format meaning your files can be opened and written in many different software products (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software_comparison).

Educational or NHS etc. copies of MS Office may be subsidised or 'free', but they are still being paid for, by us, the taxpayer (to the tune of millions). Again, (please read my the posts on Lifehacker, above) I spent few months in a local high school, and discovered they paid 20k a year on proprietary software (largely Microsoft). That money would have been better spent on staff if they had looked to open source software.

Check out http://portableapps.com - you can carry OpenOffice on your usb key, and never be without it. Most pupils/students have a usb key these days don't they? I think each of these should have OpenOffice - it's free as in freedom (as well as price).

digp

mbyrne01 wrote: »

How about £31.99 for the complete software for anyone? You only get the software through download (500Mb - be warned) so I guess that keeps the cost down. This is NOT limited to students and seems to work. I have no reasonn to believe that it is anything other than genuine. I know it's advertised through Google, so hopefully Microsoft would have stopped them if it's not legitimate.

http://www.exisoftware.co.uk/

IS THIS GENUINE? HOW DO YOU KNOW?

digp

doesn't appear genuine to me having looked at their web site plus no contact details; very dodgy indeed.