Cheapest Office 365 family subscription source

Neil_Jones

tired_dad said:

Hiya, renewing on the Microsoft portal was always over £100. On amazon I was buying a year for £70 and it worked fine.

Noticed prices have gone up and have been searching google. There seems to be sites advertising renewal fees for circa £60. Any reliable source?

You could always get the Office Personal which is significantly cheaper and you can shove it on up to 5 computers.  These don't have to all be yours...

Compared to the Family which is for up to six people and more OneDrive access that you probably know what to do with.

You always pay full price on the portal, but you can significantly undercut it on the likes of Amazon.  Prime Day, Black Friday, sometimes Boxing / New Year sales...  and I've never paid full price for Office Personal.

As for "secretly adding AI to Office", yeah that's not strictly true is it.  And you don't have to use it anyway.  You can turn it off:

J_B

flaneurs_lobster said:

J_B said:

As I keep 'banging on' 🤔 https://softwaresupply.net/ have some excellent deals for around a tenner

...and Malwarebytes "keeps banging on" that that's a hooky site

Will obviously bow to your judgement but can you explain what the problem may be - I've only bought from there once, back in Feb 2004, for a relative using my Amex card.

I went on there, put what I wanted in my basket, checked out, installed MS Office. Relative has no complaints and site is still running.

Very MSE methinks

MyRealNameToo

J_B said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

J_B said:

As I keep 'banging on' 🤔 https://softwaresupply.net/ have some excellent deals for around a tenner

...and Malwarebytes "keeps banging on" that that's a hooky site

Will obviously bow to your judgement but can you explain what the problem may be - I've only bought from there once, back in Feb 2004, for a relative using my Amex card.

I went on there, put what I wanted in my basket, checked out, installed MS Office. Relative has no complaints and site is still running.

Very MSE methinks

When you are paying vastly less than what people buying millions of licences for then you have to have at least a little bit of a question of how they are legitimately achieving it no?

There are various ways it can be done, MS also tend to go after the sellers rather than the buyers.

Dont you find it odd that their Office product page states:

Buying software licenses is completely legal. The Federal Court of Justice last confirmed this in 2015.

Name one legitimate high street retailer that has wording on their product pages to say a German court has approved them to sell the goods? 

The company they profess to be is also registered as a dormant company, which always gives that warm tingling feeling that everything is above board. 

Undervalued

J_B said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

J_B said:

As I keep 'banging on' 🤔 https://softwaresupply.net/ have some excellent deals for around a tenner

...and Malwarebytes "keeps banging on" that that's a hooky site

Will obviously bow to your judgement but can you explain what the problem may be - I've only bought from there once, back in Feb 2004, for a relative using my Amex card.

I went on there, put what I wanted in my basket, checked out, installed MS Office. Relative has no complaints and site is still running.

Very MSE methinks

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

J_B

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

I don't know the answer, but if it was illegal, why hasn't their website been closed down and why does the program continue to be updated by MS? 

Frozen_up_north

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

Very much so, also check out "theft by finding". People really have been taken to court over not taking reasonable steps to trace the owner, including a woman who picked up a £20 note in a shop and kept it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39130530

Vitor

Microsoft certainly doesn't like the resale of, supposedly, deactivated bulk licensed software to retail buyers. The UsedSoft vs Oracle case of 2012 in European Court of Justice established the legality of this in the EU.

Post Brexit I don't believe there's been a test case in the UK or reselling corporate licences. Probably not worth Microsoft's time for the notional 'loss'. 

Grey_Critic

Somewhere I have copies of MS Office 2000 (Iffy) - I have and use MS Office 2010 with licence for 3 users bought from .software4students when I was teaching and only ONE computer - I did share it with my Granddaugter when she went to University.

I do think there are a lot of old versions around

MyRealNameToo

J_B said:

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

I don't know the answer, but if it was illegal, why hasn't their website been closed down and why does the program continue to be updated by MS? 

Generally MS target the sellers not the buyers. 

Secondly they are probably tiny, you could also ask why their listed company is still dormant and yet are operating a website but no action appears to have been taken either. If you are small you can often fly below the radar and whilst anyone can find themselves in court people selling millions of licences are much more likely to. 

Shimrod

Frozen_up_north said:

At £50~£100 per year, it isn't good value to run MS 365. There are alternatives, such as Libreoffice which is compatible and free.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

At £50 a year, I find Office with its 1TB per user (and 6 users) cloud storage really good value for money. If you  don't want or need onedrive for an offsite back up then it might be different.