is there a way for college students to get office cheap?

MrPink · April 13th, 2008

i remember reading in a thread long ago that said college students could get MS office 2007 Ultimate (or whatever, the best one) for like $60.

now that i've been accepted somewhere, i'd like to hit up MS on that offer

, if it is still around...

Phil · April 13th, 2008

ussually it is...it depends on what kind of degree your gunning for

BigIg · April 13th, 2008

The Ultimate Steal

Phil · April 13th, 2008

go for it, pink

MrPink · April 13th, 2008

ah damn!

i'm still finishing High School, so even though i've been accepted, i'm not actually enrolled

!

is this something they do every year? cus it'd be easier for me to get this now then wait till the end of my freshman year IMO

Phil · April 13th, 2008

well what are the Exact requirements to get a copy??

MrPink · April 13th, 2008

You must hold a valid email address at a U.S. educational institution ending in .edu (for example, leina@contoso.university.edu)

AND

Be actively enrolled with at least 0.5 course load.

...so am i reading this wrong? cus it just seems weird that they wouldn't make this available to students going INTO their first year of college

edit: ignore the link too, stupid thing from the copy + paste from the website

Phil · April 13th, 2008

well you are activley enrolled, aernt you?

MrPink · April 13th, 2008

i've been accepted to my college, and i'm enrolled in high school

burncloud · April 13th, 2008

'Office', pfff, 'MS', pfff, deals on useful software; a Jedi needs not these things; OpenOffice shall suit your needs.

TheCloudOfSmoke · April 13th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by burncloud

'Office', pfff, 'MS', pfff, deals on useful software; a Jedi needs not these things; OpenOffice shall suit your needs.

I was actually going to say that before I saw that you posted it. When I was taking English courses, my professor said that if we can't get ahold of Microsoft Office, we could use OpenOffice as a free alternative.

cottonvibes · April 13th, 2008

MS Office should be free and come with windows.
even $60 for it is expensive.

Exodus · April 13th, 2008

You can go all anti-Microsoft, but suffice to say, it is the standard in the business world. If for compatibility reasons only, it's worth using.

SCHUMI-4-EVA · April 14th, 2008

OpenOffice is good enough though at least as a temporary solution. It's basic, but does it's job as it should.

John Aiton · April 14th, 2008

I use open office for school, and just save in office formats to put into the uni pc systems

_mr_m_ · April 14th, 2008

My dad is a state employee, so he can get Office 2007 Ultimate for $20 (I think) through a similar offer.

I've also know of a very similar offer being used through Autodesk.

It's how I got AutoCAD 2008 for free -- simply because I have a university e-mail (Granted, I get a 14 month no-restrictions license that can be renewed)

That's a hell of a bargain -- paying $0 for a ~$5000 piece of software -- that's legal no less.

Anyway, if you can't get Office for your discount, get OpenOffice; it's just as good in most cases...and its that much money that Micro$oft doesnt get.

Squall-Leonhart · April 14th, 2008

hmm that reminds me, i have a code for a free copy of Office 2007 on my connect account...

Phil · April 14th, 2008

you know where the pm button is.

kof2k · April 16th, 2008

Oenoffice is as good as MS office if not better, and later this year openoffice 3.0 will have support for MS office 2007 file formats. If you need to open office 2007 files before 3.0 is release, their is a plugin that lets you do that.

MrPink · April 16th, 2008

well then, thought this thread had died out

ok, i'll get your OpenOffice, and stick it to the m$

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MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	ah damn! i'm still finishing High School, so even though i've been accepted, i'm not actually enrolled! is this something they do every year? cus it'd be easier for me to get this now then wait till the end of my freshman year IMO __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

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MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	You must hold a valid email address at a U.S. educational institution ending in .edu (for example, leina@contoso.university.edu) AND Be actively enrolled with at least 0.5 course load. ...so am i reading this wrong? cus it just seems weird that they wouldn't make this available to students going INTO their first year of college edit: ignore the link too, stupid thing from the copy + paste from the website __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

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