Where to buy Microsoft Office 2007?

Larianne

The trial programme that was installed on my computer has now finished and I need to buy the full application. Where's the cheapest place to buy or where I can get a student discount?

Thank you!

Ronan H

Larianne try http://www.software4students.ie. How does MS Office 2000 Professional Plus for €83.95 sound? It's all above board and totally legal with no limits to the licenses etc...

Glad to be of service!

Enjoy!

Head

Sir Oxman

Yes +1 to Head's rec ommendation - fantastic value at that site.

thenightrider

Why not use open office it does the same job and will open all your word do's etc and best thing is its FREE

Jonathan

Head wrote: »

Larianne try http://www.software4students.ie. How does MS Office 2000 Professional Plus for €83.95 sound? It's all above board and totally legal with no limits to the licenses etc...

Glad to be of service!

Enjoy!

Head

Office 2000 is a not for sale.

sdanseo

Head wrote: »

Larianne try http://www.software4students.ie. How does MS Office 2000 Professional Plus for €83.95 sound? It's all above board and totally legal with no limits to the licenses etc...

Glad to be of service!

Enjoy!

Head

You mean 2007 I hope?

Reccommendation thirded, can't get better than that unless it falls off the back of a lorry download server. :P

Larianne

I saw that website. But just wanted to put the question out to see if that was the best value.

Thanks everyone. :pac:

How fast is delivery????????

Orion

Delivery is immediate from www.openoffice.org for a fully compatible alternative.

subway

if the company you work for has microsoft volume licensing then you can get office for around a tenner

https://hup.microsoft.com/

Biro

www.dabs.ie sell the student version of Office 2007 for €75.

Ronan H

Head wrote: »

Larianne try http://www.software4students.ie. How does MS Office 2000 Professional Plus for €83.95 sound? It's all above board and totally legal with no limits to the licenses etc...

Glad to be of service!

Enjoy!

Head

My bad. I did mean Office 2007! Apologies and thanks for the corrections!

Head

Ronan H

Larianne wrote: »

I saw that website. But just wanted to put the question out to see if that was the best value.

Thanks everyone. :pac:

How fast is delivery????????

In my experience delivery has always been within a week or so...

Head

jahalpin

You can get Office 2007 Home and Student for 79.99 in most shops.

Slippin Jimmy

jahalpin wrote: »

You can get Office 2007 Home and Student for 79.99 in most shops.

Pc World are doing it for €139.99, if you go in and ask them to price match it with the likes of Harvey Norman then they will plus you get 10% extra .

Rabidlamb

Macros42 wrote: »

Delivery is immediate from www.openoffice.org for a fully compatible alternative.

+1

Do you realise that this application is free, does all the same tasks, looks the same & you can save your work in Office file fomats.

aidan_walsh

Rabidlamb wrote: »

+1

Do you realise that this application is free, does all the same tasks, looks the same & you can save your work in Office file fomats.

Guys, the OP asked for places to buy Office, not recommendations for alternatives.

Larianne

Yeah cheers lads for all the replies. I went with Head's suggestion and bought it at softwareforstudents. This was before dabs.ie was posted.

ShooterSF

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Guys, the OP asked for places to buy Office, not recommendations for alternatives.

True. But if I didn't know about open office and someone told me about it when I was looking to pay for MS I'd be delighted. They werent bad mouthing MS or doing anything fanboy-esque.
Sharing info about good open source software without mocking the OP is surely a good thing?

Jonathan

ShooterSF wrote: »

doing anything fanboy-esque.

I beg to differ.

Every ms office thread in here gets ruined by the open office brigade.

ShooterSF

jmccrohan wrote: »

I beg to differ.

Every ms office thread in here gets ruined by the open office brigade.

Ah I see I dont read that many of them. Fair enough so. I was basing it on my experience when learning to use computers where people offered alternatives that I wouldnt have found. Especially when I was a student and needed beer money

Off topic, personally I dont see the point obsessing one suite is the only one etc. Where I prefer open office I can see how people being taught subjects that require an office suite and the teacher is using MS (most likely) that it can be easier to know exactly how to do what is required of them instead of having to "translate" the instructions to Open Office's way of doing things.

Sorry for the rant

Orion

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Guys, the OP asked for places to buy Office, not recommendations for alternatives.

jmccrohan wrote: »

I beg to differ.

Every ms office thread in here gets ruined by the open office brigade.

If you've a problem then report the posts. A lot of people don't know there's a free alternative so suggesting it is perfectly reasonable. Can you point out exactly where the thread was "ruined by the open office brigade"? The only person slagging anyone here is you. :rolleyes:

[edit]Just noticed that Aidan was the first quote - I stand by my comments. Suggesting alternatives - particularly to someone tight for cash (ie a student) is perfectly reasonable.

sdanseo

Larianne wrote: »

Yeah cheers lads for all the replies. I went with Head's suggestion and bought it at softwareforstudents. This was before dabs.ie was posted.

Depends which version. Proffessional Plus at €83 has a lot more than what Dabs were offering for €75.

aidan_walsh

Macros42 wrote: »

If you've a problem then report the posts. A lot of people don't know there's a free alternative so suggesting it is perfectly reasonable. Can you point out exactly where the thread was "ruined by the open office brigade"? The only person slagging anyone here is you. :rolleyes:

[edit]Just noticed that Aidan was the first quote - I stand by my comments. Suggesting alternatives - particularly to someone tight for cash (ie a student) is perfectly reasonable.

The Charter, since 2006 wrote:

6) Unhelpful comments

Unhelpful comments (e.g. "switch to linux" when encountering a windows problem) will result in a one day ban.

I was willing to offer a friendly warning first. When "where to buy" is the question, "get something else" is not helpful.

Orion

aidan_walsh wrote: »

I was willing to offer a friendly warning first. When "where to buy" is the question, "get something else" is not helpful.

Wait a minute - suggesting OO.o is not the same as saying "switch to Linux". OO is a fully compatible Windows program not a completely different Operating System. Like I said earlier I don't see the problem with suggesting an alternative that would save someone money without loss of functionality - particularly when people may not be aware that there is an alternative.

If you knew someone who was about to buy a TV for €500 and you happened to know that a different make of TV was being given away on Adverts for nothing - would it be unhelpful to point it out?

I'll take this to PM if you like - I'm not trying to start a flame war here - but I genuinely don't see the issue.

Jonathan

If it is a fully compatible windows program as you say, why do more businesses not use it?

ShooterSF

jmccrohan wrote: »

If it is a fully compatible windows program as you say, why do more businesses not use it?

Because it requires re-training their staff how to do things the open office way, which costs money? This is starting to sink into a flame war though...

As Ive said before both packages have there advantages. Price on one side against having to "translate" how to do something being taught in MS Suite to Open Office suite's way of doing things.
Also you could go into the writing macro issue with vb etc...

I don't see the harm in making someone aware of a free alternative, on the chance that they weren't aware of it and would appreciate it. Im sure the OP didnt get offended by their suggestions (knowledge is power etc). After all, all they need to say is that they're aware of it but would prefer to buy the package they're after.

Maybe it could be solved by saying "you can get x here for €xx but I would also suggest looking into x as a free alternative if you havent heard of it"

Larianne

Okay so I got the application in the post today. It came in two discs. One Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 (MS Communicator '07) and the actual microsoft office professional plus 2007 disc. The application won't run for me. How come? Any ideas????

pixbyjohn

What happens when you put the disc in the drive? Try right clicking on it and explore, then run setup. Are you using Vista? look in the bottom taskbar and see is it looking for permission to run.

Larianne

yeah I've done all that. And when I click to continue, a loud noise comes from the drive and then nothing happens.

The microsoft office communicator 2007 installed fine.

Slippin Jimmy

Larianne wrote: »

yeah I've done all that. And when I click to continue, a loud noise comes from the drive and then nothing happens.

The microsoft office communicator 2007 installed fine.

Probably stating the obvious here, but have you checked your system specs?

Larianne

Tis grand, I got it installed! I dunno, dodgy disk or something. Installed after restarting and trying 6 times. Phew, can get cracking on my assignments.

Ronan H

I appears that the situation regarding the OP has now been resolved. Perhaps it would be an idea to close this thread or put it to bed in some way seeing as it has turned into something other than what the OP was intending and gotten a bit out off track?

Just an idea, no point in flogging a dead horse, or whatever it is they say, whoever they are..

Head

galwayguy22

jmccrohan wrote: »

If it is a fully compatible windows program as you say, why do more businesses not use it?

Do you actually doubt weather it's a "fully compatible windows program"? It wouldn't even run if it wasn't fully compatible with windows.

And why do businesses not use it? A stable Open Office was released years after Microsoft had already gotten a foothold into the market with a fully developed product. The fact that nearly all businesses run Microsoft’s operating systems means if feels more natural for them to also buy Microsoft’s applications. The power of advertising, lack of knowledge by a companies IT department, lack of trust in anything free. A whole range of reasons.

The suggestion that nobody should mention OO as an alternative is stupid.

aidan_walsh

This has run its course, the OP has what she wanted.