Cheapest Place to get Office 2010

BroLo · 18-01-2013 11:49AM #1

Been doing my research and the cheapest I could come up with was Amazon which comes in around €110 or software4students for €120.

I'm looking for the Home and Student 2010 3 PC licence. If anyone can lend a hand I'd be very grateful.

reunion · 18-01-2013 12:03PM

use google documents, it's free.

or €4.90 per month for microsoft's office365 which is word and excel online. it has a 90 day free trial so you could keep making accounts and using the free trial.

BroLo · 18-01-2013 12:14PM

reunion wrote: »

use google documents, it's free.

or €4.90 per month for microsoft's office365 which is word and excel online. it has a 90 day free trial so you could keep making accounts and using the free trial.

Not the biggest fan of Google docs, as I won't always have access to the net when I need to do work, making it useless in those situations.

I would also need the use of PowerPoint and OneNote would be handy as well.

365 is a subscription service which I'm not willing to use. After roughly 2 years (I will have 2010 for longer than that ideally) It would have been the same price to get office 2010 from S4S.

bonnieprince · 18-01-2013 12:18PM

try here but i think you need to be in college to order.

http://campus.ie/discount/msoffice-for-only-%E2%82%AC99

eoins23456 · 18-01-2013 01:54PM

Torrent it

wnolan1992 · 18-01-2013 02:12PM

Maybe look into the University edition?

I believe I saw that knocking around for €99 the last time I looked? Think it's the same as the home and student except you register with your UL email address when buying.

N1one · 18-01-2013 02:19PM

What about an alternative?

http://www.libreoffice.org/download

BroLo · 18-01-2013 02:22PM

eoins23456 wrote: »

Torrent it

Looking for a legit copy. Not interested in getting an illegal copy.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Maybe look into the University edition?

I believe I saw that knocking around for €99 the last time I looked? Think it's the same as the home and student except you register with your UL email address when buying.

University edition seems great, but its for 1 PC only, and the 3 added programs would be of no use to me at all. So for the cost the 3PC Home and student would be better value, as I could potentially get others to go in on it with me, or else I could install it on new PCs or family PCs and split the cost.

N1one wrote: »

What about an alternative?

http://www.libreoffice.org/download

I've tried Libre Office and OpenOffice and I've had some terrible compatibility issues and formatting problems so I'm looking for MS Office now.

Chris Martin · 20-01-2013 10:50AM

Doubt it'll be the cheapest but I picked mine up from Currys before Christmas while getting my new laptop in a bundle for €150.

With this you got 1 Year Subscription to Livedrive 500GBish I think,
1 Year Norton X 3 uses and
Microsoft Office 2010

gctest50 · 20-01-2013 04:50PM

Might suit you for documents:

http://www.miktex.org/about

http://www.miktex.org/portable

BroLo · 20-01-2013 08:17PM

Chris Martin wrote: »

Doubt it'll be the cheapest but I picked mine up from Currys before Christmas while getting my new laptop in a bundle for €150.

With this you got 1 Year Subscription to Livedrive 500GBish I think,
1 Year Norton X 3 uses and
Microsoft Office 2010

Not looking for a new Laptop at this point anyway, and I wouldn't touch Norton with a barge pole, so not much use, thanks though.

Jaggy · 20-01-2013 08:21PM

Used Open Office for four years of college and never had a compatibility problem. You can save the file as a MS Office file if you need to. You can then open it in Microsoft office on a different computer if needs be.

If the issue still arises you can always save it as a PDF so it'll open properly across all computers.

BroLo · 20-01-2013 08:28PM

Jaggy wrote: »

Used Open Office for four years of college and never had a compatibility problem. You can save the file as a MS Office file if you need to. You can then open it in Microsoft office on a different computer if needs be.

If the issue still arises you can always save it as a PDF so it'll open properly across all computers.

Been using it for 2+ years and I always get compatibility issues. I have saved as MS Office files and it constantly screws up the formatting when I try to open it on college computers, and saving as a PDF is no use when I either have to edit on others computers or am required to submit it as a .doc/.docx file.

So I'm not interested in alternatives, I'm just looking for advice on the cheapest place to buy a legit copy.

Chris Martin · 20-01-2013 08:28PM

http://www.currys.ie/Product/MICROSOFT-Office-Home-and-Student-2010/298301/7.13

Currys €120 MO 2010 1 key
Ask them nicely and they'll install it too,
Did for me

Doubt there's much to it though.. :P

BroLo · 20-01-2013 08:31PM

Chris Martin wrote: »

http://www.currys.ie/Product/MICROSOFT-Office-Home-and-Student-2010/298301/7.13

Currys €120 MO 2010 1 key
Ask them nicely and they'll install it too,
Did for me
Doubt there's much to it though.. :P

€120 for 1 PC, or €120 for 3 PCs, I think I'd go the 3PC route.

Chris Martin · 20-01-2013 08:33PM

120 for 1, 140 for 3

BroLo · 20-01-2013 08:38PM

Chris Martin wrote: »

120 for 1, 140 for 3

As I said in my first post I can get a 3PC license for as low as €110 or €120, I was looking for anyone that had any cheaper offers than this.

Stuxnet · 20-01-2013 10:12PM

best bet is keep an eye out on software4students, got my office '10 pro , 2 licenses for 60 euros last year....

other then that, youll have to bite the bullet and fork out, libreoffice is perfectly fine these days if you use it right, I have no issues opening/saving any M$ format files on any of my unix machines,, despite your problems

MajesticDonkey · 21-01-2013 01:38PM

http://software4students.ie/products/microsoft-office-university-2010

€100 and has 2 PC licenses. I got the Pro Plus version a few years ago and installed it on loads of PCs, but it only came with a 3 PC license. It'll still work.

BroLo · 21-01-2013 02:11PM

MajesticDonkey wrote: »

http://software4students.ie/products/microsoft-office-university-2010

€100 and has 2 PC licenses. I got the Pro Plus version a few years ago and installed it on loads of PCs, but it only came with a 3 PC license. It'll still work.

When you say loads, do you mean all at once? And how many roughly? Just interested, I know someone that has used a PKC with a 1 PC licence on 5-7 PCs already (depending if 2 factory restored PCs count as 2 new installations) and if I could piggy back on that it'd be handy out.

reunion · 21-01-2013 02:12PM

There are some books in the library which have a cd/dvd copy of word/excel and an activation key with them (there was last year anyway).

The books are like how to use excel or something (something like this). Typically the 3 hour short loan area have the cd/dvd in the book. The non-3 hour loan books don't have the cd/dvd with them (but the cd/dvd should be available if you ask reception).

You could do some research into these books and could install excel and word 2010 from one of those books.

From a quick library search, Powerpoint will probably be the 2003 version and you will probably have to use openoffice or something similar for onenote.

MajesticDonkey · 21-01-2013 03:04PM

BroLo wrote: »

When you say loads, do you mean all at once? And how many roughly? Just interested, I know someone that has used a PKC with a 1 PC licence on 5-7 PCs already (depending if 2 factory restored PCs count as 2 new installations) and if I could piggy back on that it'd be handy out.

Three desktops and two laptops, and two of those installations were done twice WITH activation a second time, so it technically ends up at 7 installations with the same key.

And not all at once, BTW - over the space of 2 years.

BroLo · 21-01-2013 03:06PM

MajesticDonkey wrote: »

Three desktops and two laptops, and two of those installations were done twice WITH activation a second time, so it technically ends up at 7 installations with the same key.

And not all at once, BTW - over the space of 2 years.

When I say all at once, I mean were they active at the same time, ie more than 2 running at a time, or did yo uninstall and reinstall?

I've been told by software4students that MSO University is non transferable...

Cheapest Place to get Office 2010

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