Seems like a good deal on Microsoft Office

OU812

Code by email

Six Family licences, good for a year with a TB of OneDrive thrown in & the codes are stackable so if you go in with six friends, you've got six years worth of Office with all updates/upgrades for just £70

Aurora Starstreak

Why pay when you can get it for free?

IvoryTower

Aurora Starstreak wrote: »

Why pay when you can get it for free?

Careful now

spongerobinson

75 euro in Argos...probably a few euro cheaper then Amazon when sterling is converted.

Picked up the same from Amazon on Black Friday for just over £51.

s_carnage

Libre office. Free and just as good as office.

garyfleming7

Aurora Starstreak wrote: »

Why pay when you can get it for free?

How?

mrcheez

Note, you can pay for this via Google Play using your spare phone credit (sign up via the One Drive app)

€7 per month but it's credit that would otherwise be wasted!

tritriagain

s_carnage wrote: »

Libre office. Free and just as good as office.

For exel and word maybe but access is far superior imo.

TallGlass

mrcheez wrote: »

Note, you can pay for this via Google Play using your spare phone credit (sign up via the One Drive app)

€7 per month but it's credit that would otherwise be wasted!

And works on desktop? Interesting.

mrcheez

TallGlass wrote: »

And works on desktop? Interesting.

yip... handy thing alright. Haven't used the storage yet, but I reckon I'll need it fairly soon as I'm running out of space on my HDD!

sioda

Use one drive as my cloud storage and get office for free. Great value and service to be honest.

whatawaster

s_carnage wrote: »

Libre office. Free and just as good as office.

Libre Office is a fine free application, but it is a million miles away from the quality of Office. Excel in particular has no real rival, and it gets better and better every year (So does Google Sheets, imo, but it has serious performance issues with large spreadsheets).

If you don't want to spend money, and your use is casual - use Google's free office suite.

If your needs are more complex, and you will be sharing / sending files in a professional environment, you should be use Office.

whatawaster

sioda wrote: »

Use one drive as my cloud storage and get office for free. Great value and service to be honest.

I agree. I pay €100 a year for 1tb storage and the full office suite on my 2 pcs, my macbook, my ipad and my android phone. To me, that's excellent value.

ozmo

Not sure why would anyone pay a yearly fee for this...

When its only 15 pounds to own the equivalent outright.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MICROSOFT-OFFICE-2016-Digital-License/dp/B07GN3FQGC

The 1TB space might sound useful, but dont forget it goes away once you stop paying for it -
using dropbox, onedrive and google drive you can get a useful amount of cloud storage for free

slave1

Plenty of 365 Office 2016 licence 6X installs for less than a tenner on ebay, used them for years without any issue

Standman

ozmo wrote: »

Not sure why would anyone pay a yearly fee for this...

When its only 15 pounds to own the equivalent outright.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MICROSOFT-OFFICE-2016-Digital-License/dp/B07GN3FQGC

The 1TB space might sound useful, but dont forget it goes away once you stop paying for it -
using dropbox, onedrive and google drive you can get a useful amount of cloud storage for free

Are they legit?

How can Microsoft be selling €100-a-year subscriptions to Office on their site while you can buy it outright for a fraction of that price on Amazon? Smells fishy.

whatawaster

Standman wrote: »

Are they legit?

How can Microsoft be selling €100-a-year subscriptions to Office on their site while you can buy it outright for a fraction of that price on Amazon? Smells fishy.

They are probably not legit, but probably will work.

Standman

whatawaster wrote: »

They are probably not legit, but probably will work.

Yep, check out one of the 1-star reviews:

OFFICE KEY WAS BLOCKED SO I WAS NEVER ABLE TO BE USE.
MICROSOFT HELPLINE ADVISED MAYBE STOLEN OR FRAUDULENTY OBTAINED.
DO NOT BUY FROM THIS SELLER!!!!!

Proceed with caution.

whatawaster

ozmo wrote: »

Not sure why would anyone pay a yearly fee for this...

When its only 15 pounds to own the equivalent outright.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MICROSOFT-OFFICE-2016-Digital-License/dp/B07GN3FQGC

The 1TB space might sound useful, but dont forget it goes away once you stop paying for it -
using dropbox, onedrive and google drive you can get a useful amount of cloud storage for free

Office 365 gets more regular updates and gets features that Office 2016 will never get. Office 2016 owners will eventually need to buy Office 2019 to get those features.

If you use things like Power Query and Power Pivot on a regular basis, then €10 per month is well worth it.

ozmo

Standman wrote: »

Are they legit?

How can Microsoft be selling €100-a-year subscriptions to Office on their site while you can buy it outright for a fraction of that price on Amazon?

Its Amazon and they are usually very trustworthy at keeping everything legit - if you think its fraudulent you can let them know - but he has 100% positive feedback and I can see one bad review and nearly 200 good ones - maybe that reviewer worked for a computer shop lol.

That said I have not bought one from that particular seller myself -
discarded/scrapped e-waste laptops might be another good source of second hand legit licences - use the free 'jellybean' utility to get the serial from the old laptops registry

gctest50

whatawaster wrote: »

Office 365 gets more regular updates and gets features that Office 2016 will never get. Office 2016 owners will eventually need to buy Office 2019 to get those features.

If you use things like Power Query and Power Pivot on a regular basis, then €10 per month is well worth it.

whatawaster wrote: »

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If you use things like Power Query and Power Pivot on a regular basis, then €10 per month is well worth it.

Power Query was renamed to

Get & Transform in office2016


Available as a download for excel 2010/2013

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39379



Should be free addons anyway - what kind of a yoke can't import a bit of data these days ?

TallGlass

I paid the 7€ and you get a free month if you never had it before. However I am going to query with my manager as they have Office 365 that if the licensing covers home usage. Which could be an option for people in a large corporate getting 'free' office.


To be honest, I think 7€ a month is reasonable for what I am getting. Think I will start to move stuff to that cloud for some storage SSD is getting full.

whatawaster

gctest50 wrote: »

Should be free addons anyway - what kind of a yoke can't import a bit of data these days ?

Power Query / Get and Transform doesn't just import data. It's how it transforms and cleans up Data in a way that can be reproduced as data is refreshed. It has both a complex language (M) behind it and a simple-to-use GUI. It is a remarkably adaptable piece of software.

You say they should be free, that's fine to have that opinion, but they are probably the biggest enhancements to Excel in 20 years and have replaced a lot of Visual Basic programming for a lot of people. For an awful lot of people that is worth paying for.

Power Query alone saves me hours every month by automating reporting, paying for itself many times over.

ablelocks

spongerobinson wrote: »

Picked up the same from Amazon on Black Friday for just over £51.

does the UK version work ok in Ireland?

If you have an existing monthly subscription, can you cancel that and then use the new annual sub?

Luff123

You could find a better deal with a bit of research. I'm new here so don't really want to link anything to not make it appear as I'm a spammer.

Wheety

Luff123 wrote: »

You could find a better deal with a bit of research. I'm new here so don't really want to link anything to not make it appear as I'm a spammer.

Legit deals?

TallGlass

That storage is brilliant. Can't believe I never done it before, freed up nearly 13GB on the SSD!

Synode

TallGlass wrote: »

That storage is brilliant. Can't believe I never done it before, freed up nearly 13GB on the SSD!

What storage? Does OneDrive not store a copy on your SSD too

TallGlass

Synode wrote: »

What storage? Does OneDrive not store a copy on your SSD too

No it has an option for online only. If you right click it and select free up space it moves it to online only, then removes the local copy. Just make sure to empty the recycling bin as it seems to move them over there too.

I'm just moving everything over for now and will sort it out tomorrow. Might move anything important back or just encrypt it with 7zip or something leave it online.

Bargain to get all this for 7€ if you ask me. Office, and a fairly sizeable place to backup. Seemingly you can set it up so it stores your photos and frees up the space on your phone.

Blazer

I use the online option too and have it shared out to 2 other people also.
I could acquire a copy for it on ebay or amazon but you're locked into an email provided by the seller. They're normally university licenses hence why they're cheaper.