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Geek Culture / MS Office Ultimate £38.95 for students

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BatVink
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 18:18
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No use to me (you must have a .ac.uk address and be enrolled on a course), but is fantastic if you qualify.

Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Groove, Publisher, OneNote, InfoPath, Access.

http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk./eligibility.asp

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5867Dude
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 18:22
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Man I wish I could claim that but I'm not a student

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Zombie 20
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 18:41
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grrrrrrrrrrrr zombie's annoyed now.

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Jess T
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 18:51
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Wow, and considering that Open Office is free, that's a great deal...

But seriously, here in Aus it's $50 I believe, with the same restrictions. I believe they require you to show them a school header signed by yourself... Or something along those lines.

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5867Dude
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Posted: 26th Sep 2007 19:23
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I would get a yearly deal if I was a student and upgrade when a new one comes out.

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Aaron Miller
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I agree, Open Office is a great solution, that just happens to be free.. IMO it's better than what I can remember from MS Office, but I haven't used any of the latest versions of either Open Office, or MS Office.

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ionstream
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Yeah whats the deal with those educational things? Do you show them your school ID or something? Because I'm gonna need powerpoint for a presentation soon (the one on OpenOffice exports terribly to ppt).

That's not as bad as you think you said.
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How about if you sign up to a nightly class, such as the Greek lessons we get in Cyprus? Cheapest I've seen is run by the government and costs about £30CYP a year (about £36GBP or $70). Worth it to just pay that then never turn up.

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BatVink
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Posted: 27th Sep 2007 12:27
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Open Office is good, and better value for money
But, and I hate to see myself saying this, MS Office is better. For that price, it's fantastic.

I see they now do a Home & School version, 3 licenses for about £80. It's more cut-down though.

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microsoft has finally cottoned on that it's better to get a little money out of students rather than demand lots, routing the students to piracy and getting none then?

Open Office is good, but sadly MS Office is still better. I wouldn't dare imagine trying to make the database I'm (trying) to build right now in OO. Having said that, that's probably because of a lack of experience more than the software's incapability.

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Chris K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2007 12:46
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The website seems like a con to me...

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Sep 2007 16:35
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Swish is all I can say to that. When I upgrade my comp, it will certainly be something I can take advantage of as well as Cinema 4D for £70 and other cheap student products.

I'd download open office, but on my current laptop it's slow and Microsoft works is doing fine for the time being. Plus Manic is right, Microsoft office is better than open office, Office is probably the greatest product MS have released, that's ram happy, stable and easy to use.

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Chris K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2007 18:20
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Quote: "Office is probably the greatest product MS have released"


I recon it's third after Visual Studio and Windows, but it's still pretty awesome.

I've just checked up on the 2007 office edition and it look so swish running on Vista:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Word.png

So clean and clear.

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Seppuku Arts
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Hehe, Microsoft Office Mac users I'm sure would beg to differ But yeah it's definitely in the top, though I've managed to get along with Office much more easily than Windows or Visual Studio (aside from my crap C++ and C# programming), but then I suppose it's the nature of the product.

Also, that screenshot looks pretty slick...though parts of the interface I don't dig, but I'm sure it's customisable.

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Jeku
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Posted: 27th Sep 2007 23:09
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Our university used to offer up all the Microsoft software to us for free. We had to sign a statement to Microsoft with proof of our ID, and we could get anything we wanted. I wasn't aware that they're charging money for students at all.

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Chris K
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Posted: 28th Sep 2007 01:37
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Bet it is a con then.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Sep 2007 01:44
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We get free Enterprise Anti Virus software at ours (if living in Halls), but not MS Word and all that. That probably is a con, but if I want a student version, I'll just see what Academia/Student Software have it going for (if they have it)

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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Sep 2007 04:44
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I get Office for free from school, along with Windows and Visual Studio.


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Jess T
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Posted: 28th Sep 2007 09:34
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Quote: "Our university used to offer up all the Microsoft software to us for free."


Quote: "I get Office for free from school, along with Windows and Visual Studio."


Damn it, why do they always forget about Australia? No wonder the east coast of Australia has one of the highest rates of piracy in the world!

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