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MarcLister
13-09-2007, 19:57
Seems like Microsoft have gone mad. They are offering students at UK educational institutes with email addresses ending in .ac.uk the chance to buy Office 2007 Ultimate for £38.95 or £12.95 for a one year licence.

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

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/buy/universityoffertandc/

I'm amazed by the offer, it seems genuine so I might go ahead and try this. Certainly beats the £75 I would have been able to get Office 2007 Professional for from the IET and the £4.99 postage & packaging charges on top. :)
Daz
13-09-2007, 20:02
Awesome. Wont use it myself (covered by work's licensing) but I know plenty of people who will, cheers :)
semi-pro waster
13-09-2007, 20:06
Cheers for the headsup, I'd certainly have considered this but I think my email address from uni might have run out now with the new term starting. That and OpenOffice seems a pretty decent replacement so I can't complain too much. :)
MarcLister
13-09-2007, 20:24
Well I'm still stuck with Office 2000 here so its a bargain and a half. ;D
kaiowas
13-09-2007, 20:37
So what does "Be actively enrolled with at least 0.5 course load." actually mean in the real world?
MarcLister
13-09-2007, 20:44
Er I think it means be doing at least half the modules in a year that your course demands. So I do three modules a semester, two semesters a year means I have six modules. If for some reason I was doing two modules or less I would not be eligible.
Blackstar
13-09-2007, 20:44
Great :) thanks.
Haly
13-09-2007, 21:40
I've still got my email address but don't think I'll count as I'm just doing my dissertation now, nice offer though. :)
Feek
13-09-2007, 21:41
Shame YMF doesn't have an email address, but I doubt third year at comprehensive counts anyway.
kaiowas
13-09-2007, 21:47
Er I think it means be doing at least half the modules in a year that your course demands. So I do three modules a semester, two semesters a year means I have six modules. If for some reason I was doing two modules or less I would not be eligible.

Ooh, was expecting it to require you to be in education for at least half your time or something. Vix does day release and should have an ac.uk email address so I wasn't sure whether she'd be eligible or not.
Belmit
13-09-2007, 21:49
My work address ends .ac.uk. Wonder if I can get around the other stipulation...
MarcLister
13-09-2007, 21:54
wonder if an openuniversity.ac.uk would count?The Open University is a UK educational establishment. As long as you can put a blahblahblah@no-really-i-am-a-student.ac.uk, you'll be fine. :)

Ooh, was expecting it to require you to be in education for at least half your time or something. Vix does day release and should have an ac.uk email address so I wasn't sure whether she'd be eligible or not.Half your time? Like part time studying? :confused:
Blackstar
13-09-2007, 21:55
Kitten, i'm pretty sure if you are currently enrolled in the OU then it would be fine. :)
Dee
13-09-2007, 22:12
Ill be selling my ac.uk address on for a small profit then ;)
Joe 90
14-09-2007, 02:04
if they sent it me in a nice box i'd be tempted....paying £39 for a download...pfft :P
Pickers
14-09-2007, 07:09
bum. I have an .ac.uk address - but my student card expired this year... :(
Daz
14-09-2007, 09:14
if they sent it me in a nice box i'd be tempted....paying £39 for a download...
...for something that retails at a lot more? Who cares! The media is 99% irrelevant anyway, it's the license which is valuable.
Robert
14-09-2007, 09:34
bum. I have an .ac.uk address - but my student card expired this year... :(

Same :(
MarcLister
14-09-2007, 11:52
if they sent it me in a nice box i'd be tempted....paying £39 for a download...pfft :PYou can download the files and burn them to a CD. As Daz says its not the media you are paying for, its the licence. £40 for something that retails for nearly £500 on Amazon is a bargain.

If you really want the CDs you can pay a little extra for them.
Feek
14-09-2007, 11:55
I understand they've dropped the price of Office 2007 in the USA to $75 because it's not selling. Nobody wants it!
MarcLister
14-09-2007, 11:57
For everybody Feek? And is that the Professional version?
Feek
14-09-2007, 12:01
Dunno, it's what someone called out in the office today.
Joe 90
16-09-2007, 00:58
had a thought, this isn't just open to uni students...

its open to uni staff as well...although i doubt we have any uni staff here... - anyway i'm both staff and student, i have two .ac.uk email addresses :D :P