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Ms Office Bargain???

  • 06-10-2009 11:58am
    #1
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I haven't posted in the Tech section of Boards before but I need to get MS Office for my laptop & came accross this website and I was wondering if it's legit. http://www.software4students.ie/# . It is a great offer for parents with kids in school or college etc, which I have, so I would like to hear form someone who has bought from this website.

    Regards


Comments

  • #2
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    As the name says, it's for students only.

    It's also legit.


  • #3
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭homer911


    Havent bought anything off them myself, but it is genuine.

    Before purchase though, I suggest finding out if your employer is a member of Microsoft's Home Use Program.

    If so, you can get MS Office for the cost of the P&P

    https://hup.microsoft.com/


  • #4
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Miley Byrne


    testicle wrote: »
    As the name says, it's for students only.

    As I said, I have a child in National school who will hopefully get use out of this software at home.

    Thanks


  • #5
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Do you really need office? For the price concious there are other options out there. You would really need office to justify paying for it these days.


  • #6
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Do you really need office? For the price concious there are other options out there. You would really need office to justify paying for it these days.

    €47 for Office Enterprise on that link. Hardly going to break the bank.


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  • #7
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    OpenOffice = Free


  • #8
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    mickoneill30 wrote: »
    €47 for Office Enterprise on that link. Hardly going to break the bank.
    It's still a nice chunk of change for software that's essentially very restricted in what you can do with it.


  • #9
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    tricky D wrote: »
    OpenOffice = Free

    Indeed it is. If you can figure out how to open a large doc from a customer with a table of contents without Open Office Write (it was v3) shagging it up let me know. We evaluated it here earlier on this year. I really, really wanted to save a fortune and go with Open Office. Couldn't do it. Anyway that's off topic.

    €47 for Office Enterprise (I don't know how it's restricted) isn't a bad price for students but they probably wouldn't get any benefit over Open Office or Google Docs anyway. Now if only they sold Windows 7 and not Vista.


  • #10
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    mickoneill30 wrote: »
    Now if only they sold Windows 7 and not Vista.

    They will, on the 22nd of October, when it is released.


  • #11
    jahalpin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭jahalpin


    ScumLord wrote: »
    It's still a nice chunk of change for software that's essentially very restricted in what you can do with it.

    You get full versions of all the main Office programs with this offer and the only restriction is that you can't use them for commercial use, as the OP is buying it for his kids this shouldn't be a problem.

    As other posters have said the site is totally legit and is actually advertised by Microsoft on their education websites.

    I have looked at the free alternatives before and was not impressed, they all seem very amateurish in comparison to Microsoft Office. Microsoft are the market leader for a reason


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