Hehehe, MS Office 2013 is technically not out yet - and I have it for $10

[destrekor]

:awe:


I would never have purchased it at full retail, and generally don't even believe I have a need for the full Office suite, nor need the latest 2013 version when I have Office 2010 Professional.

But, getting Office 2013 Professional Plus, for $10... I can't pass it up. It feels wrong to NOT buy it.

It's also the only reason I even have Office 2010 Professional. That, too, I got for $10.


This is all thanks to the Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP).


Thank you Army - sometimes, even if it's rare, you are indeed awesome.

 

[lxskllr]

Schools have a social mission: to teach students to be citizens of a strong, capable, independent, cooperating and free society. They should promote the use of free software just as they promote recycling. If schools teach students free software, then the students will tend to use free software after they graduate. This will help society as a whole escape from being dominated (and gouged) by megacorporations.

What schools should refuse to do is teach dependence. Those corporations offer free samples to schools for the same reason tobacco companies distribute free cigarettes to minors: to get children addicted (1). They will not give discounts to these students once they've grown up and graduated.

https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html

https://www.libreoffice.org/

;^)

 

[destrekor]

https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html

https://www.libreoffice.org/

;^)

I've used LibreOffice.

It's a decent replacement when running on Linux systems, but I'm sorry - it will never beat Office. Far more features, better integration, etc etc.


It's a great suite, especially considering it's Free (in both ways), but I'll forever pay $10 for the full Microsoft suite over sacrificing compatibility, integration, and features.

 

[Engineer]

This was posted well over a week ago in Hot Deals! :biggrin:

(and while not "legal", Hotmail addresses worked for a little while too).

 

[Printer Bandit]

that one site already has it for free.

 

[TridenT]

That's cool. I got office 2010 for free. When Office 2013 comes out(EDIT: I guess it's out now? Whatever. I don't want it right now anyway. It's way too metro), I'll probably get that for free too. It's legit as well. (The few perks of being a school so heavily invested-in/dependent by/on Microsoft)

 

[destrekor]

That's cool. I got office 2010 for free. When Office 2013 comes out(EDIT: I guess it's out now? Whatever. I don't want it right now anyway. It's way too metro), I'll probably get that for free too. It's legit as well. (The few perks of being a school so heavily invested-in/dependent by/on Microsoft)

It has nothing to do with a school being heavily invested in, etc etc... if you're in an IT program at just about any halfway decent college/university, you'll get MSDNAA/Dreamspark Premium access - where you'll get a whole bunch of Microsoft software, if not all of it, available free.

I didn't have that during my school (not IT), and got a taste of it during some Army training. Now, I rely on special deals using my .edu email address I still have, or employer-related deals.

 

[Jimzz]

I've used LibreOffice.

It's a decent replacement when running on Linux systems, but I'm sorry - it will never beat Office. Far more features, better integration, etc etc.


It's a great suite, especially considering it's Free (in both ways), but I'll forever pay $10 for the full Microsoft suite over sacrificing compatibility, integration, and features.

Unless you are a power user the majority of users today; Libreoffice works just fine. I stopped using MS office a while back and for home and basic office use it does everything I did in MS Office.

The newwer Libreoffice has updated quite nicly over the old openoffice.

The new libreoffice 4.0 comes out in early Feb.

 

[TridenT]

It has nothing to do with a school being heavily invested in, etc etc... if you're in an IT program at just about any halfway decent college/university, you'll get MSDNAA/Dreamspark Premium access - where you'll get a whole bunch of Microsoft software, if not all of it, available free.

I didn't have that during my school (not IT), and got a taste of it during some Army training. Now, I rely on special deals using my .edu email address I still have, or employer-related deals.

It's for everyone actually... You don't have to be in a computer-related program. We all get a free copy of Wolfram Mathematica 8 too. There's a lot of software everyone gets for free...

 

[SKORPI0]

This was posted well over a week ago in Hot Deals! :biggrin:

(and while not "legal", Hotmail addresses worked for a little while too).

IIRC, MySpace and Facebook also worked for a while. Workplace email address still works, might end up getting both Windows and OS X versions. :awe:

 

[Engineer]

IIRC, MySpace and Facebook also worked for a while. Workplace email address still works, might end up getting both Windows and OS X versions. :awe:

Facebook didn't work. Myspace worked on the previous 2010 versions.

 

[Zorander]

I've got a copy of 2013 from HUP as well. I couldn't be bothered to install it yet though.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

I graduated in the Spring and my verification expired in July. =/ Also, my school only offered Project, Visio and Access 2013, otherwise you had to get Suite 2007. Bah. You could get full Pro versions of the OSes though. Wish I had remembered to pick up 8 in case I ever wanted it.

 

[destrekor]

I graduated in the Spring and my verification expired in July. =/ Also, my school only offered Project, Visio and Access 2013, otherwise you had to get Suite 2007. Bah. You could get full Pro versions of the OSes though. Wish I had remembered to pick up 8 in case I ever wanted it.

8 wasn't RTM in July, so if that's when you lost access, you wouldn't have ever been able to grab it for free.

Though if you hurry up, you can get Win8 Pro for $40 still.
You don't have to install using that license right away, but if you do want Windows Media Center (which you can get for free at the moment), you have to activate that before the end of the month I think, which means you'd have to have Win8 installed by that time.
Otherwise, the Media Center Pack will jump to $10 in February.

 

[herm0016]

and all the free ones are great if you are making a simple doc, but for everything else they suck.

hot deal.

 

[mikegg]

https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-schools.html


;^)

Sure, let's have kids use inferior software so other countries can leave U.S. students in the dust even more.

Have kids use GIMP while India and China use Photoshop CS6.

 

[lxskllr]

Sure, let's have kids use inferior software so other countries can leave U.S. students in the dust even more.

Have kids use GIMP while India and China use Photoshop CS6.

Because clicking buttons like a monkey is learning, right? If someone can't seamlessly switch between any similar application set, they should go to the doctor to get their lobotomy finished. They aren't fit to make it through the world.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Personally I can't stand using anything after office 2003. Thankfully 2003 is the corporate standard. At home I use Libre office. It does mess up on some advanced stuff like the sort list, but the way I see it, when you are using an excel sheet like it was an application, it's time to convert that to a php/mysql system.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I bought it for $10.00 too. It is very ugly and flat 2-D looking, just like W8. It's slower too. Not impressed. I may go back to 2007.

 

[Jumpem]

We used to have HUP. But apparently we no longer do.

 

[waggy]

sheesh. im still useing fucking win 2003 lol i keep missing out on these deals

 

[gorcorps]

The cool thing about the new one is that it autocorrects my typos instead of just highlighting them with the little red underline.

I like that part, but I feel like I need some color. It's all flat white and looks really boring.

 

[zanejohnson]

oh god..

i have every version of everything.

people are smarter than you. get over it.

 

[bbhaag]

Because clicking buttons like a monkey is learning, right? If someone can't seamlessly switch between any similar application set, they should go to the doctor to get their lobotomy finished. They aren't fit to make it through the world.

I take it you haven't visited the OS forum in a awhile? I swear to god 75% of this forum is in a rage because of the lack of ONE button let alone multiple buttons. You can't ask people to do something a different way or learn a new way of doing something. Think of the children!

 

[destrekor]

The cool thing about the new one is that it autocorrects my typos instead of just highlighting them with the little red underline.

I like that part, but I feel like I need some color. It's all flat white and looks really boring.

That's pretty much the only real reason I had any interest in 2013. Office 2010 in Windows 8 just looks terrible. 2013 just feels like it is "one with the system", as it should, since it meshes with the current design trend.

But I honestly had no intention of ever picking it up, but knew all along I would as soon as it got cheap (less than $20). So now my Office applications just blend in with the Win8 UI, and thus the obviously 2D flat design theme actually sort of disappears - if you are using Win7 or earlier, it'll stick out rather terribly; but on Win8, it's the other way around with older applications that don't stick to the standard interface.

oh god..

i have every version of everything.

people are smarter than you. get over it.

wait, what's that?!

How does this have anything at all about being smarter or dumber than other people?
I wanted to brag a little about my good deal find earlier, but to me it was a small moment of elation - a small victory. My jaw is still a little sore after 4 wisdom teeth getting removed last week; I've now been tobacco-free for 5 days; hell, today I used up my last dose of vicodin too.
ibuprofen and naproxen, in massive doses, should take care of the remaining pain/discomfort, but dammit - the point is, it hasn't exactly been a week full of win for me.