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AlatMartins
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My free 30-day trial of MS Office is ending, renewing it is expensive, but cheap offers of MS Office Professional 2019 keep appearing on my Facebook page.
They claim to be legal, at various prices between $9.99 and £27.95, around £100 less than on the official MS site. If they're NOT legal, why doesn't Facebook block them?
They claim to be legal, at various prices between $9.99 and £27.95, around £100 less than on the official MS site. If they're NOT legal, why doesn't Facebook block them?
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Most of them are mis-used volume/education licences that are liable to be pulled by MS0
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I bought a licence key on Ebay for about £3. It worked fine and the software is all still running fine after 4 months. As far as I can tell they can't 'pull the licence' on your installed software, but it almost certainly wouldn't work again if you needed to reinstall it later for any reason.0
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They can pull it while it's in use. Just don't allow it to do updates because that's one of the routes that invokes the licence validity check.0
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Petriix said:I bought a licence key on Ebay for about £3. It worked fine and the software is all still running fine after 4 months.I got a 'five user' one off E Bay for about a fiver about 18 months ago - still working fine with all updates.Just got a new PC but couldn't find the password for the above so had to splash out another £1.99. It has updated so far without issues.1
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You can always use Libre Office which is free and, for general purposes, just as good.0
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Neil49 said:You can always use Libre Office which is free and, for general purposes, just as good.0
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Neil49 said:You can always use Libre Office which is free and, for general purposes, just as good.
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Never tried LibreOffice but find the free online version of Office does suffice for simple documents.0
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Gabi, could you put a link to the online version please? Can you save documents to your hard drive with it?I've used Libra Office and find it runs really well. Now I don't need to input loads of data or run off multiple letters it does the every day things I need at home.
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twopenny said:Gabi, could you put a link to the online version please? Can you save documents to your hard drive with it?I've used Libra Office and find it runs really well. Now I don't need to input loads of data or run off multiple letters it does the every day things I need at home.
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