MS Office 2007 Ultimate for $60 (students only)
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thecoolnessrune
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- Jun 8, 2005
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Yay! The Ultimate Steal Deal is back!
Me and bro got in on it when it ran for the first time last year. Told bunches of college students about it. They'll be glad I'm sure to know it's returned.
Me and bro got in on it when it ran for the first time last year. Told bunches of college students about it. They'll be glad I'm sure to know it's returned.
911paramedic
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F##k, they have vista ultimate for under $70 in a couple of weeks too, that would have saved me $100. (If it's the 64 bit version.)
This is a download though, I would much rather have a disk in my hand. Or, are you granted unlimited downloads like with steam as long as you use your serial#?
Great buy though...
This is a download though, I would much rather have a disk in my hand. Or, are you granted unlimited downloads like with steam as long as you use your serial#?
Great buy though...
AFAIK the deal never expired. I was able to add it to cart for months. I have an EDU email . What worries me is they warn about checking enrollment and require proof in the future. So i am hesitant about buying. Since i recently graduated i no longer am enrolled. But still have access to my EDU email.
This is a great deal! You have the option to order discs if you want as it states on the site.
Obtaining Software:
Eligible students can obtain the software by downloading or ordering a disk from the official Promotion web site. The cost for ordering disk(s) is USD$13.00. Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 is not available on disk.
*Business Contact Manager and Office Accounting Express requires a separate download. If ordering a disk, Business Contact Manager and Office Accounting Express are each included on separate disks.
Will that Vista Ultimate work on a new build if I don't already have a lower version of Vista on it?
In order to get to the page where you can order, all you need is access to a .edu email account at a verified school. You do not even need direct access; if your school provides free email forwarding for life, you can still get to that order page.
However, in the terms, the following is stated:
Microsoft or an appointed vendor may contact you to verify that you are a current student. If documentation is not provided indicating that you are a current student, you will be liable to reimburse Microsoft for the difference between what you paid and the estimated retail price of the software.
Now, how likely is it that someone will contact you? Also, how legally binding are these terms? IANAL, but I'd guess that even if they contacted you, they would have a hard time getting you to pay the difference.
However, in the terms, the following is stated:
Microsoft or an appointed vendor may contact you to verify that you are a current student. If documentation is not provided indicating that you are a current student, you will be liable to reimburse Microsoft for the difference between what you paid and the estimated retail price of the software.
Now, how likely is it that someone will contact you? Also, how legally binding are these terms? IANAL, but I'd guess that even if they contacted you, they would have a hard time getting you to pay the difference.
When you have to have MS I guess you have to have it, but my son and I have been doing just fine with Open Suite.
AFAIK still free to students.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp
AFAIK still free to students.
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/index.jsp
That's what I wanted to do (well, with OpenOffice.org), but when I spoke to the IT people at my son's school, they said that you really needed Office, because OO isn't compatible enough. They couldn't explain _how_ it was incompatible, but I don't want him to get burned (in case they make you use some automation that is Office specific or something like that), so...
(I think the real reason is that the school appears (from other evidence) to have a major tie-up with M$, and they always push the company line. Not thrilled about that at a major public university, but not much I can do about it...)
OO has trouble with some Office 2007 files. They say more support is coming, but who knows when.
FWIW I work in the comp lab at my college, and generally recommend OO unless people are going to be working with Office 2007 stuff.
Yes, but technically you're supposed to have a valid older OS which you're upgrading from. The workaround for a new install is to begin the installation, don't enter your key and choose Vista Ultimate install. Exit installation and restart it again, this time entering your key, at which point it'll think the previous install you just aborted was the previous OS you're upgrading from.
Are you sure this works? That's seems like a mighty big (and easy to fix) loophole for Windows upgrade versions.
bob4432
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pretty much all schools have a huge ms presence, that and some macs in a couple of areas, but i would say the shcols i have been too were 90%+ pc and this would be cc and university, same w/ all the public libraries - 100% ms and just about every govt computer is 100% ms. it is just their saturation level.
Almost nobody with a clue *uses* Office 2007 to *generate* Office 2007 format files because basically NOBODY out there can EASILY read / use them -- this is true even of the numerous people with older versions of Office -- Office 2000, Office XP, Office 97, etc. It is more common for people to be running one of the older program versions than the latest in most business or academic environments, so typically it will be a standard practice even for those using Office 2007 to SAVE any file in the Office 97 or similar format just so basically ANYONE can read it without having to install converters / fonts / viewers / etc. that few people have done or care to do.
In fact in many organizations / environments, people have practices defined whereby they SAVE / SUBMIT work in something even more universal like RTF, TXT, Postscript, maybe PDF, whatever for text documents.
Such being the case, I wouldn't worry too much about using OpenOffice or an older MS Office version. The only major incompatibilities are in some of the macro programming support areas (which are rarely used / enabled these days unless absolutely essential because they're HUGE security risks), and in some of the finer points of the Office 2007 unique formats. There can be minor font / formatting differences too, but generally they're either acceptable or easy to work around.
That said, this is a reasonable deal for a non-free office suite if you quality, though the free ones probably could solve the problem for 99.5% of people if they tried.
In fact in many organizations / environments, people have practices defined whereby they SAVE / SUBMIT work in something even more universal like RTF, TXT, Postscript, maybe PDF, whatever for text documents.
Such being the case, I wouldn't worry too much about using OpenOffice or an older MS Office version. The only major incompatibilities are in some of the macro programming support areas (which are rarely used / enabled these days unless absolutely essential because they're HUGE security risks), and in some of the finer points of the Office 2007 unique formats. There can be minor font / formatting differences too, but generally they're either acceptable or easy to work around.
That said, this is a reasonable deal for a non-free office suite if you quality, though the free ones probably could solve the problem for 99.5% of people if they tried.
Not enough people have Office 2007, and 2007 is in another format by default -- it forces you to remember to save the document in a 2003 or earlier format. Wish there was an easier way.
I guess we "don't have a clue" where I work.
We went to Office 2007 early due to it's integration with SharePoint 2007. The use of workflows and digital signatures was a no brainer for us in managing official operating documents in our work, which is under Federal oversight with regards to document management. Office 2007 solved nearlly all of our audit issues.
Also, microsoft has a plugin for earlier versions of office to read .docx and .xlsx files. It will prompt a user using office 2003 to download the plugin.
Also, I use Open Office at home and it completely thrashed an Office 2003 document that was in a template format. Completely unreadable to the person that authored the document.
I would certainly expect a high level of MS usage given (as you point out) their market penetration. In this case, I'm talking about official tie-up between the school and MS. The school uses hotmail as their _official_ mail service, and encourages usage of other MS Live features. They allow any personal systems to be used, but provide support only for Windows and Mac, and less support for the latter. They encourage (to the point of mandating) Office. There are other similar things. I think part of the issue is that they seem to have outsourced everything they can (not just mail and other callaborative services, but personal system backup, and (I believe) network management). Note that this isn't a small private liberal arts school - this is an engineering-oriented public university with 50,000 students - you would think they could manage these services themselves...
BTW - while most government _offices_ may be 100% MS (I don't know), government labs aren't (lots of Unix, including Linux), and at least parts of the DoD aren't...
Originally posted by: Muadib
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Yo Mama?
Good point on the documents conversion from Office 2007 to older Office versions. I just had a friend tell me about this problem with a teacher requesting not to have students save docs in the 2007 version.
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