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Cheap place to purchase Microsoft Office?

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If your school doesn't offer it cheap, go thru a college student. Microsoft wants to get students hooked on their products so they sell their software (w/o all of the product marketing) for about 20% of what you would pay at compusa. You usually have to have proof that you are a student so you have to get a student to buy it from the campus computer store.
 
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i use ms office all the time at work becuase everyone else does too, but i prefer openoffice.org and use that at home. open office is basically a clone of ms office and it is totally free.


http://www.openoffice.org/

sun microsystems made most of this as a big fuck you to microsoft mostly. it works really well, is stable, and all my open office org documents open all ms office products and i can save open office documents with ms office file extensions and open them in ms office with no problems at all at work.
 
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MyDixieWrecked said:
If your school doesn't offer it cheap, go thru a college student. Microsoft wants to get students hooked on their products so they sell their software (w/o all of the product marketing) for about 20% of what you would pay at compusa. You usually have to have proof that you are a student so you have to get a student to buy it from the campus computer store.
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Thump, you can get this discount as a teacher, too. My mom's a school counselor and just bought it pretty cheaply. I think the discount rate is around $150.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
just pirate it you pansy.

HARRRRRRRR
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Is that what you did?

The current version I have on my old computer is a pirated one but the guy who put in on my computer kept the installation CD and lives out of town so that's not an option.
 
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Thump said:
Is that what you did?

The current version I have on my old computer is a pirated one but the guy who put in on my computer kept the installation CD and lives out of town so that's not an option.
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I would just go with Open Office until you can find a pirated copy. My office moved to open office for a while and we didn't have any problems. It has word, excel, and powerpoint that all work the same as MS office.
 
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Thump,

Since your wife works at OSU, you may want to have her check if she is eligible for a discount. I never looked myself when I worked at OSU, but I was able to get Windows XP, MS Office and Front Page for $100 from the bookstore in Central Classrooms when I was a grad student . There might be a similar discount for employes.
 
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As a MS business partner I am shocked!:wink2:
Actually you could spend the rest of your life trying to get a P2P copy to work as MS will blacklist the frequently used serial numbers. They are also going to prevent you from upgrading/updating unless you have a legit copy.

If you are a teacher you should be able to get an educational copy cheap.

If you have more than one computer and want a complete set of MS software you may want to consider the MAPS program.

You have to indicate you are a business partner and you intend to develop on the software. It is around $300-$400 per year but you get multiple licenses of WinXP, office, project, visio and media center I believe. Now if you stop paying the $300-$400 a year you are supposed to stop using the software. I do not know how stringently they enforce that.

Open Office is OK, as a teacher it should not be a problem but in business there are compatibility issues.

In the long run you are better just to get an education version.
 
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