Cheapest (or free) Microsoft office?

stragglebod

20aday wrote: »

Am too late to the party but sometimes employers can get MS Office for their employees; think it’s £11.99 these days.

Not any more. You can now only get a small discount off Office 365 subscriptions.

£60 a year for 1 person, £80 a year for a household.

These were 'exciting changes' if I recall the email I got about it correctly.

JustAnotherSaver

For a permanent copy and none of this 1 year payment thing, which Office version should you be looking at, be it on eBay or otherwise?

stragglebod

Improvements from 2013 to 2016 and then 2016 to 2019 were marginal, so any of those three should be fine.

unforeseen

stragglebod wrote: »

Not any more. You can now only get a small discount off Office 365 subscriptions.

£60 a year for 1 person, £80 a year for a household.

These were 'exciting changes' if I recall the email I got about it correctly.

That's not even a discount. They are Microsoft normal prices for a year's subscripfion

dogmaryxx

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

For a permanent copy and none of this 1 year payment thing, which Office version should you be looking at, be it on eBay or otherwise?

Download Office 2019 and activate(lifetime) with simple VB scriipt.

dipsomaniac

just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay

Rotor

dipsomaniac wrote: »

just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay

what's the downside of doing this ? Can Microsoft recognise and deactivate these codes? so that at anytime in the future you could find yourself without Office?

i note the cheap sellers on ebay are all recent and low feedback sellers

Undervalued

dipsomaniac wrote: »

just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay

If it sounds too good to be true then it almost certainly is too good to be true.....

Chino

Rotor wrote: »

so that at anytime in the future you could find yourself without Office?

All you'd have to do is get back onto Ebay and spend another couple of pounds on buying another dodgy code.

dipsomaniac

Rotor wrote: »

what's the downside of doing this ?

Its a onetime licence so you can't use twice