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Title: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: y00tz on October 12, 2007, 01:02:30 PM
Here's a deal I'd like to pass on:

For college students who are taking 0.5 credit hours or more AND have an email with .edu at the end (Sorry Nick :(), Microsoft has a sweet deal until April '08. in which you can buy Office Ultimate for just $59.95.

LINKS:

http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx

Ultimate includes:

Access™ 2007

Accounting Express 2007

Excel® 2007

InfoPath® 2007

Groove 2007

OneNote® 2007

Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager

PowerPoint® 2007

Publisher 2007

Word 2007

Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 12, 2007, 01:20:01 PM
(Sorry Nick :()

Its Ok. I hear that Office '07 sucks anyway. :P

Besides, I tend to avoid MS stuff like the plague.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: DaRkNeSS on October 13, 2007, 02:20:17 AM
All the cool kids use Microsoft Office.  So clearly Zorch doesn't use it. :P
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Playah on October 13, 2007, 09:09:01 AM
This would be shweetness if this worked for Europians too. I'm gonna check...
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Cobo on October 13, 2007, 02:50:27 PM
Its Ok. I hear that Office '07 sucks anyway. :P
Its actually pretty good, its just a little bit harder because its not like the older office.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: y00tz on October 13, 2007, 03:11:08 PM
This would be shweetness if this worked for Europians too. I'm gonna check...

Quote from: http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx
The following conditions serve to define student eligibility for the Promotion:

1.
   

Individual must possess a valid e-mail address at a U.S. educational institution which contains the domain suffix .edu; AND

2.
   

Individual must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.

Sorry :(
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Nitroboy on October 13, 2007, 03:21:36 PM
Its Ok. I hear that Office '07 sucks anyway. :P

Besides, I tend to avoid MS stuff like the plague.

That is so true. Office 07 really sucks, mainly because it is exactly like a vista setup. I wish I didn't upgrade!
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Playah on October 14, 2007, 08:19:07 AM
... you can buy Office Ultimate for just $59.95.
It's only a trial-version. They hide it so meddling nicely. Good job microsoft.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: y00tz on October 14, 2007, 09:02:55 AM
I'm not convinced.. the mention of a trial is unrelated to the perpetual license until later...
Quote from: http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time.

...

Quote from: http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx
Eligible students can convert their Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Trial to the perpetual license by returning to Promotion website prior to the Promotion deadline and purchasing the relevant product key.

Also, on the United Kingom web-site (looks like it IS available for other countries), It has "Use it for one year." and a price, then "Own it!" and it's about 38 pounds...

I'm convinced it's the real deal...
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 14, 2007, 01:24:46 PM
I'm convinced it's the real deal...

I'm still sticking to OOo (http://www.openoffice.org/) and Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/).
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: magalhaes on October 14, 2007, 02:05:11 PM
Yeah i use openoffice 2
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Eiii on October 14, 2007, 03:16:11 PM
I just wish that openoffice wasn't java-based. It's incredibly slow (to start up) and bloated. Just starting it writer up takes up 35MB of memory, whereas ABIword takes up 9.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 14, 2007, 06:28:07 PM
I just wish that openoffice wasn't java-based. It's incredibly slow (to start up) and bloated. Just starting it writer up takes up 35MB of memory, whereas ABIword takes up 9.

I only use OOo for power point and spreadsheet stuff cuz Abiword doesn't have that. But yea, OOo does start up a bit slow.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: sk89q on October 15, 2007, 08:08:27 PM
I just wish that openoffice wasn't java-based. It's incredibly slow (to start up) and bloated. Just starting it writer up takes up 35MB of memory, whereas ABIword takes up 9.

OpenOffice is written in C++ actually, but it does use a hefty lot of Java thrown in occasionally. Arrgh, I hate Java.
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: jitspoe on October 16, 2007, 09:17:37 PM
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Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60
I got several emails about this.


When did y00tz turn into a spambot? :)
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: y00tz on October 16, 2007, 11:14:22 PM
Awww, can't a guy help save some folks some money?
Title: Re: Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007, $60*
Post by: Zorchenhimer on October 16, 2007, 11:16:15 PM
No, it is forbidden.

:)