As title, if you buy this from say Amazon, do you have to authenticate it via Microsoft or is it a case of saying out loud "I am a student" and hitting Install?
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Im going to burn in hell? Its not for me anyway.
Whether you buy a S/T edition without pedagogical intent, or steal Office from teh internet, you have little to worry about, unless youre a business that can be "audited" by MSs pikelhaubed minions.
You get a coupon. You send it back with details of your institution filled in. They check, they then send you out a copy of the software.
My local Costco sells the S/T edition without any strings that I saw. :shrug:
I cant see mention of a coupon in any reviews or sites that sell it..
They do the cupons with some versions (some NHS staff get this for Ã,£15), dunno about the student version though. I thought it was just a cutdown version on the normal one, sold a bit cheaper :?
Quote from: CeathreamhnanI cant see mention of a coupon in any reviews or sites that sell it..
Phone up/email to check?
AFAIK, anybody can grab the ~$125 S/T edition for home use, but you can get even deeper discounts at University and school bookstores--where indeed youll need to show ID.
From the MS website: This edition of Microsoft Office gives students, teachers, and families the most used Office programs at a special price.
families if your child is in a place of education.
Office 97 was a coupon scheme, and office 2003 when I joined uni was a coupon in a box (not known for sure as I didnt have it ;) but its what I heard on the grapevine as it were)
You get it... send it off, my 97 one needed a letter from my school on letterheaded paper.
Then you get a disk sent through the post about 10 days later.
I know a few people who got a technet sub so they could get vista & office 2007 for the price of a sub - substantially less than the real deal...
Didnt pay for mine myself as I went to the launch!
the msdn alliance you can get it for free.
I think that most software ms or not is overpriced and would sell much better at a low price so much better that they would earn about the same and there would be less cracking
and pirating.
maybe the cheapest way is to become a microsoft partner then get an action pack... you get lots more with it too.
https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/40016455
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Hmm I keep getting this error in IE7, getting it with my webmail, and with the MS site linked. :shock:
tiz just a certificate error. Could be anything from incorrect date and time set on your computer, to it actually being a dodgy certificate.
Hmm, just clicked the MS link again and didnt get the error - how strange.