Microsoft Office XP cheap for CA Students

[ams30gts]

Microsoft has negotiated a deal for the students of the California Community Colleges and the California`s private independent colleges (Stanford, etc.).

Office XP Professional: $ 72.75 + tax
Office XP Standard: $63.90 + tax
Office X Mac: $68.90 + tax
Windows XP Professional Upgrade: $74.60 + tax

Here are the prices (which include shipping and handling)...You have to be enrolled..they will ask you for verification.


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[Parasitic]

Damn it, I go to an UC school.

 

[kimagurealex]

just take some volleyball, basketball, swimming, tennis, bowling and photo courses from the junior college. those are cheap and fun and you can pass the class without showing up at all.

Alex

 

[kindest]

its cheaper at Cal State schools i think, ive never ofically checked the prices tho.

 

[Parasitic]

I wonder if Stanford will let Cal students take classes there.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

cool.

IU (Indiana University) was the first to engineer such a deal with Microsoft. We got a much better deal as well.

$5 a cd.

 

[zainali]

do u need to be a full time student or can u just take one class and get the software?

 

[gsethi]

some community colleges will give you the software for free....all you have to do is to enroll in a CS class to get those software..i know when i was in community college, they used to give us free software if we wanted any...

any software you demand from MS, you could get it...i still think of taking a CS class there over the summer just for the heck of all the softwares....and their License also allows you to burn copies of it for your personal use

PS: Please dont start PMing me to get the name of that community college

 

[Byte]

Originally posted by: gsethi
some community colleges will give you the software for free....all you have to do is to enroll in a CS class to get those software..i know when i was in community college, they used to give us free software if we wanted any...

any software you demand from MS, you could get it...i still think of taking a CS class there over the summer just for the heck of all the softwares....and their License also allows you to burn copies of it for your personal use

PS: Please dont start PMing me to get the name of that community college

Most colleges let you do this. You just have to find the right people.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
cool.

IU (Indiana University) was the first to engineer such a deal with Microsoft. We got a much better deal as well.

$5 a cd.

Purdue University has the same deal. Visual Studio .net is only $10 though, not actually $5/disc.

 

[Devistater]

Unfortunately calstate no longer has cheaper software. Before Dec 1, 2002, they had something like a 4 year contract, all the software was $40 each, and they had some pretty generous terms like installing on home and laptop, etc. The new contract is $70-$80 each, 1 computer each (except office already has laptop provision), and I think a limit of 1 copy per person.

 

[weepul]

booo, UC's arent included, what a rip!

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Akki]

I get all sorts of MS software for free (including Office, XP, VS.NET, etc) through a MS school program. I go to a technical school, so perhaps it's something for technical schools.

 

[DavidTan]

I go to csulb, can I still buy it?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Damn it, I go to an UC school.

same here, i'm gonna take a CC class to take advantage of this

 

[yasth]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
cool.

IU (Indiana University) was the first to engineer such a deal with Microsoft. We got a much better deal as well.

$5 a cd.

Actually it was $5 a package at IU Bloomington IUPUI was $5 a cd. Now they changed the prices on everything though. Still $5 for most things though. They were/are giving away the old CDs upon presentation of a student ID so if you know any Students in Indiana's Public Uni system you can get them to get you one. Also the ones they are giving away use corporate keys too so no activation or hassles. The new ones are controlled (new contract, and now that we aren't the only School system the terms have gotten worse) and need to be activated. Oh and they don't really keep track of students getting more then one cd, though they sort of hint they do, and possibly could.

Bah as for the silly Boilermaker paying $5 for Visual Studio, well IU students can download it (iuware.iu.edu) for free. Really though there are a number of systems that have nice prices, ask around.

Scott

Edit You could go to SCS and pay 400+ to enroll in a course and get access to all the stuff (as far as I can tell from the license agreement) stupid tuition increases. Still if you want to take a course, well free software is nice (any couse will do)

 

[rasputinj]

Not a bad deal, I took all my MCSE courses and CCNA courses at a JC, worked for me.

 

[ckmoocow]

Hehe, UCLA engineering students get to download just about every single Microsoft product that was ever written for free, EXCEPT for office. DOH! :|

I believe CC classes cost less than CalState ones? I think it was 11 bucks/class at my local cc a few years back...