Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 13.9.2007
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."
Microsoft tried the promotion earlier this year as a pilot program in Australia, before deciding to offer it in the U.S.
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Comments(9)
holy s**** microsoft, consider me bought.
they should do this with vista
ultimate too...
what if the school doesn't offer e-mail addresses to its students ?
to alex06
:
$60 is the cost of one month of broadband internet access. with that, you
could download office 2007 enterprise (blue edition) and vista ultimate (crack included).
so, why wait for microsoft lousy promotion :)
kevin: that is too much money for the isp , with that money i can pay 2 months and
download more that 300gb monthly .........
i will keep using my "illegal" version
of windows and office .....
finally a real incentive for student (and for microsoft, too: now you use word 2007 at a
very low price, in future, you would use word 2015 at complete price).
n.b.: i
use warez, but if there is a legally and good option...
i have an idea. why not just steal it off of a torrent or even rapidshare or usenet?
there are legit cracks for the application out there and you are not just limited to
office 2007.
they just lost (last week) their bid to make their open (proprietary) xml office format
an iso. even after paying off governments. if only they can make college students use
their new format (the default format for office 2007), maybe when they try next year to
get their proprietary format isoed, it passes. personally, i think not.
grow up. who cares what microsofts motives are - at the end of the day if even a few
students - who genuinely cant afford to pay retail prices - get to grab a copy at a big
discount then its a worthwhile promotion.
to kevin:
well, the thing is, i've tried several cracks on this pc and have always
had to revert back to using xp (which was on a hdd that has failed last week and can no
longer be recovered), and i've used my last re-arm back in august for vista, it's now
expired. a storm now threatens to shut down my pc, and then i'll have to re-boot and end
up with reduced functionality. no crack works, so i need a cheap way to get a vista
ultimate key. this would be it.
also, i don't intend to reinstall vista,
seeing as how i don't really have where to back up all my things, and it will still not
work anyway if i reinstall.
or you could use msdn:aa if your university is enrolled in it and get most microsoft
software (vista, xp pro etc.) for free. doesn't have office though.
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By Alex06 on 14.09.2007 - 00:09