Discounted Microsoft Office
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ZH875, ignoring the possibility that you are piss-taking, I actually use WP 11, I decided that 12 and XIII did off any more than I need.
At work I often start documents in Word, or get them in Word and eventually give up and switch to WP which allows me to properly format them, remove gash coding etc and ultimately republish in Adobe PDF which stops every other b
r plagraising my work 
At work I often start documents in Word, or get them in Word and eventually give up and switch to WP which allows me to properly format them, remove gash coding etc and ultimately republish in Adobe PDF which stops every other b
r plagraising my work
PN, not piss-taking this time, it is just that I never could get on with the later windows versions of WP, and found the earlier versions that much easier to use.
IIRC WP4.2 operated off of one 5¼" floppy disk.
BTW PDF is easy to cut and copy, even if a password has been set, it just takes a reasonably short time...
I just felt that the total change of front end for Office 2007 was not worth the effort, so went back to 2003.
IIRC WP4.2 operated off of one 5¼" floppy disk.
BTW PDF is easy to cut and copy, even if a password has been set, it just takes a reasonably short time...
I just felt that the total change of front end for Office 2007 was not worth the effort, so went back to 2003.
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ZH, yes, I resemble what you say which is probably why I have not really engaged with the mainat programs in 2007 such as Word.
When I tried to type a letter in word I found that the templates were online. As I was not online the time that rathed faxed that up, as Prince Charles was once heard to say.
I started with WP5.0 but I did have WP Office 3.0. I kept the editor program for that for years as it was better for creating batch files etc than notepad.
Agree about bloatware. Last 'big' program I had in floppy was probably WP7, some 23 AFAICR.
Now you have to buy floppy drives as an add on.
Or take the disk to work, load it on the locked down machine, and email it home. Agh!
PS, of course I would never dream of doing that. Got that advice from a Provost Officer, 'onest Guv.
When I tried to type a letter in word I found that the templates were online. As I was not online the time that rathed faxed that up, as Prince Charles was once heard to say.
I started with WP5.0 but I did have WP Office 3.0. I kept the editor program for that for years as it was better for creating batch files etc than notepad.
Agree about bloatware. Last 'big' program I had in floppy was probably WP7, some 23 AFAICR.
Now you have to buy floppy drives as an add on.
Or take the disk to work, load it on the locked down machine, and email it home. Agh!
PS, of course I would never dream of doing that. Got that advice from a Provost Officer, 'onest Guv.
If you phone MS to complete the registration instead of registering the application online, you can install Office 2007 on as many machines as you like (provided they are all your own personal machines).
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/Rant on
At the risk of being accused of zealotry (sp?) I too recommend OpenOffice as the alternative to MS Office. oOo is free, open, compatible, capable, cross-platform (MS/Mac/Linux) and will only keep improving. Think "the Firefox of office suites".
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At the risk of being accused of zealotry (sp?) I too recommend OpenOffice as the alternative to MS Office. oOo is free, open, compatible, capable, cross-platform (MS/Mac/Linux) and will only keep improving. Think "the Firefox of office suites".
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Now all we need to do is get Office 2007 on the military system. I keep sending docx files from home and cannot open them!!
Yes, I know there is a free converter and our server peoples are looking into it (the software not the server)
Yes, I know there is a free converter and our server peoples are looking into it (the software not the server)
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I bought Office 2003 Student Version (years ago). All you have to show is that someone is a student, including your wife, kids, a neighbor's kids, etc. You just say you're buying it for them. Good for installation on up to five machines. It's the full software suite, nothing missing. I assume a similar discount is available on Office 2007. Look for "academic discount." Online shops usually hold order until you email them some documentation, which can consist of a university receipt, school id card, etc. Usually pretty liberal.
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A similar scheme does not exist for Adobe. That said, SBL is allowed to make private sales at the same rates that they charge the MoD provided you're an MoD employee. Contact them and they will be able to do you a discounted (but not massively so) price. SBL would have been able to do me an upgrade to CS3 Extended for the same price that most places were selling CS3 upgrades. However, I didn't have a need for the extended features and found a slightly better deal on the straight CS3 upgrade online once I had factored in the quidco rebate.
Were Bill Gates to offer his software at sensible prices, those liars and frauds who keep the pirate software market alive would have no further reason to do so.
I find it quite amazing that someone would brazenly admit to 'pretending' to be a student in order to buy software at lower cost.
Perhaps it's just that I'm from an era when honesrty and integrity were amongst the characteristics expected from a gentleman?
I find it quite amazing that someone would brazenly admit to 'pretending' to be a student in order to buy software at lower cost.
Perhaps it's just that I'm from an era when honesrty and integrity were amongst the characteristics expected from a gentleman?
Tricorn - you should be able to save files using 2007 in 2003 format. That will help the transfer but I know its not the best solution - and you lose 2007-only aspects of your documents - but it may help.
2007 also allows you to keep previous 2003 versions installed so you have the choice of either version to use.
2007 also allows you to keep previous 2003 versions installed so you have the choice of either version to use.
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Tiger Mate,
Did you know that all Adobe software (inc PS) is available on a free download trial basis?
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
It goes without saying that making up hotmail accounts and using proxy servers in order to perpetuate the arrangement is probably not strictly within the spirit of it..
Did you know that all Adobe software (inc PS) is available on a free download trial basis?
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
It goes without saying that making up hotmail accounts and using proxy servers in order to perpetuate the arrangement is probably not strictly within the spirit of it..
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The Office discount is part of the microsoft software assurance scheme.
As it happens Corel had a similar, but cheaper scheme with WordPerfect etc and this may be true of Adobe too.
Essentially an employee was authorised to install a copy of the program on his home machine provided his employer had a licence for his office machine. This was a defacto recognition that people ripped off the software and also a marketting ploy as an employee moving companies might ask for WP to be installed at work.
The catch, as far as the MOD was concerned was getting hold of the company copy in the first place.
As it happens Corel had a similar, but cheaper scheme with WordPerfect etc and this may be true of Adobe too.
Essentially an employee was authorised to install a copy of the program on his home machine provided his employer had a licence for his office machine. This was a defacto recognition that people ripped off the software and also a marketting ploy as an employee moving companies might ask for WP to be installed at work.
The catch, as far as the MOD was concerned was getting hold of the company copy in the first place.
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Beagle, I am so glad that you are not a Police man, Customs man or Tax Inspector. For jumping in with:
When I am buying for my 13 year old 'student' youngest son who is not allowed to purchase from eBay is IMHO entirely with integrity. In the interim, I did not appreciate your premature assumption, so p155off and mind your own business.
£150 or £500, lets think about this: .....and there is no guarantee that you are older than me either,
AIR: Thanks for the tip, but that is far too nauseous. I did it once or twice with Nikon NX software and then bought it anyway. Adobe have the fleet leader with Photoshop CS3 and they know it.
I find it quite amazing that someone would brazenly admit to 'pretending' to be a student in order to buy software at lower cost.
Perhaps it's just that I'm from an era when honesrty and integrity were amongst the characteristics expected from a gentleman?
Perhaps it's just that I'm from an era when honesrty and integrity were amongst the characteristics expected from a gentleman?
£150 or £500, lets think about this: .....and there is no guarantee that you are older than me either,
AIR: Thanks for the tip, but that is far too nauseous. I did it once or twice with Nikon NX software and then bought it anyway. Adobe have the fleet leader with Photoshop CS3 and they know it.
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Tiger_Mate, we are almost all students.
My first experience of cheap software was when Borland offered Quattro Pro at a competitive user discount (few thousands at today's prices compared with Office now)
I returned their offer commenting that I would love to be allowed to take up their offer but I was merely a SuperCalc user at work and did not actually own a copy of SuperCalc. They actually rang me up, said no problem, and a deal was done. Later, based on that deal they offered me a cheap copy of the dBase.
Some time later, as a legitimate student, I ordered a copy of Symantec's AV Suite. This time they asked signed evidence from my 'school' although they accepted the course letter from the university.
Other than Symantec, 'user-licence', 'student edition' etc are all sales gimics. Capture the user first time round and you get a virtually assured income stream from upgrades.
My first experience of cheap software was when Borland offered Quattro Pro at a competitive user discount (few thousands at today's prices compared with Office now
)I returned their offer commenting that I would love to be allowed to take up their offer but I was merely a SuperCalc user at work and did not actually own a copy of SuperCalc. They actually rang me up, said no problem, and a deal was done. Later, based on that deal they offered me a cheap copy of the dBase.
Some time later, as a legitimate student, I ordered a copy of Symantec's AV Suite. This time they asked signed evidence from my 'school' although they accepted the course letter from the university.
Other than Symantec, 'user-licence', 'student edition' etc are all sales gimics. Capture the user first time round and you get a virtually assured income stream from upgrades.
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"When I am buying for my 13 year old 'student' youngest son .....and there is no guarantee that you are older than me either,"
Do the math. If Beags had a 13 year old child he would have become a father at 102. I think it is a safe bet that he is older than you.
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"When I am buying for my 13 year old 'student' youngest son .....and there is no guarantee that you are older than me either,"
Do the math. If Beags had a 13 year old child he would have become a father at 102. I think it is a safe bet that he is older than you.
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Tiger,
I have trialed two products from Adobe and ended up buying them at the end of the trial period. The free trial process is very seductive, and clever too. They know that actually using the product is only half of the experience.. owning it is just as important, and that most people inclined to dabble are honest people at heart.
As an aside, I see that Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's offer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7237320.stm
Microsoft was mad but found itself forced to offer such a high price, and Yahoo is mad to reject it. Unless of course, it thinks that Microsoft is desperate enough to go higher.
I have trialed two products from Adobe and ended up buying them at the end of the trial period. The free trial process is very seductive, and clever too. They know that actually using the product is only half of the experience.. owning it is just as important, and that most people inclined to dabble are honest people at heart.
As an aside, I see that Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's offer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7237320.stm
Microsoft was mad but found itself forced to offer such a high price, and Yahoo is mad to reject it. Unless of course, it thinks that Microsoft is desperate enough to go higher.
Has this offer closed?
I know this has been a recurring question, and here it is again! However, I have just tried the link to apply for my cheap Office copy and it doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone have any ideas? It would be nice to load on my new laptop!