Any students here?

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/educatio...ityoffertandc/

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.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcLister

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.

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MarcLister Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Leighton Buzzard Posts: 1,282	Any students here? 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/educatio...ityoffertandc/ 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.

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