For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it. Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a promotion, dubbed "Ultimate Steal," in which college students can get the ultra high-end Ultimate edition of Office for just $60.
The promotion runs through April 30 and starts Wednesday in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It launches next week in France, Italy and Spain. To be eligible, Microsoft said students have to be "actively enrolled" in a higher education program and have an e-mail address from that school.
"We're listening to students who have told us they need Microsoft Office for their studies and want more flexible ways to get the latest version," Alan Yates, general manager of Worldwide Education at Microsoft, said in a statement. "The Ultimate Steal is the latest in a long history of providing compelling academic offers for students."
News source: C|Net News
The promotion runs through April 30 and starts Wednesday in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It launches next week in France, Italy and Spain. To be eligible, Microsoft said students have to be "actively enrolled" in a higher education program and have an e-mail address from that school.
"We're listening to students who have told us they need Microsoft Office for their studies and want more flexible ways to get the latest version," Alan Yates, general manager of Worldwide Education at Microsoft, said in a statement. "The Ultimate Steal is the latest in a long history of providing compelling academic offers for students."
News source: C|Net News
got to keep their software dominant (though galling for people who have paid $500)
got to keep their software dominant (though galling for people who have paid $500)
Oh ok cause have you ever sent your professor a document that you made in open office only to have it lose all formatting when opened up on their PC in Word?
Yeah. Never again. Don't be an OO fanboy.
got to keep their software dominant (though galling for people who have paid $500)
Oh ok cause have you ever sent your professor a document that you made in open office only to have it lose all formatting when opened up on their PC in Word?
Yeah. Never again. Don't be an OO fanboy.
Learn to save in a Neutral format, like say RTF?
got to keep their software dominant (though galling for people who have paid $500)
Oh ok cause have you ever sent your professor a document that you made in open office only to have it lose all formatting when opened up on their PC in Word?
Yeah. Never again. Don't be an OO fanboy.
Learn to save in a Neutral format, like say RTF?
But the professors might only want the word format not thinking RTF works and will not open it.
In version 2 of Open Office the formatting and other stuff worked good for me when saving as .doc files, I only had problems in version 1 with tables. I think if people are worried about their formatting they should download the Free Word viewer and check their work before sending it.
got to keep their software dominant (though galling for people who have paid $500)
Oh ok cause have you ever sent your professor a document that you made in open office only to have it lose all formatting when opened up on their PC in Word?
Yeah. Never again. Don't be an OO fanboy.
PDF, anyone?
however students deserve this...i mean..most students dont have anymoney 2 spare
I currently have the both installed.
Drawing borders is easy. On most selected objects special tab, usually 'Format' or something, there's a Shape Border, or Picture Border, etc. button. It's pretty hard to miss, it's right with all the other object formatting options. And, of course, nothing stops you from right clicking the object and choosing "Format Shape", or "Format Picture", etc (Just like in 2003)
I currently have the both installed.
Agreed, any office over 2003 is way more bloated also the new interface is good for newcomers but a burden for more seasoned in msoffice. Luckily Visio 2007 retain the old style.
It's no secret that Office 2007 has been all over the P2Ps for a while now.
This is an obvious ploy by Microsoft to get students to "go legal" with their copies of Office.
I don't think it's going to work much.
-Spenser
Oops, wrong! In MY day I bought a copy of Office 2000 Pro on campus and the Academic price was about $350.
Kids have it way too easy today.
And i guess it does not really cost MS $600+ to make one copy of Office after all.
Edit: D'oh! didn't realise you just had to change the language at the top *slaps forehead*
Also, What does the 0.5 course(s) stipulation mean? Does it that you have to 1/2 a course enrolled or you need 1/2 a course load? (my guess is 1/2 a course load)
And now MS is doing almost the same and nobody complain about this matter.
You're apparently not a college student or you really wouldn't be bringing that bogus argument up.
-Spenser
Program Description:
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. Each trial provides (1) 25 application launches (each launch of an individual Office Ultimate application is counted as one launch) before the software goes into reduced functionality mode (at which time your software behaves similarly to a viewer, you cannot save modifications to documents or create any new documents, and additional functionality might be reduced); and (2) the opportunity to purchase the following perpetual license for the Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 software:
Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 (USD$59.95): Perpetual license, which includes the following applications:
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Access™ 2007
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Accounting Express 2007
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Excel® 2007
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InfoPath® 2007
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Groove 2007
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OneNote® 2007
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Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager*(see Obtaining Software below)
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PowerPoint® 2007
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Publisher 2007
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Word 2007
People like you are the reason we have BS like "Genuine Advantage" and "Activation". If you don't want to pay for the software, don't buy it OR PIRATE IT you lazy freeloader.
"Make it cheaper and we'll stop pirating it" my arse.
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