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FAO broke-a$$ students who need MS Office 2007 (yes, legally) (pg. 2)
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
Microsoft just wants to get students hooked on the MS Office suite for cheap. When these students go into the working world, they'll be so accustomed to MS Office that they won't switch to any other office productivity software suite, which they'll have to buy at full price.
If you think about it, it's pretty much like drug dealing :toothless
So yeah, I'm pretty sure this is legit |
you don't seriously believe that psychobabble, do ya? MS office format is about to become an international standard and you think that hooking some students on word would help salvage MS? You mean the intern maggots walking into giant corporations with COMPANY-MANDATED, pre-installed on your workstation/laptop microsoft product suite, are going to protest and say - GIVE ME OPEN OFFICE OR I QUIT!!!!????
Face it buddy, like it or not MS ain't going anywhere. As much as I like open source stuff and happen to run number of different flavors of *nix, I have to be realistic. There's hardly any competition from products like open office or any other variant because MS is de-facto standard in the industry and pretty much everywhere else you look.
Tho, not to say that won't change sometime but I just don't see it happening anytime soon. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
^^^ because sometimes it's just easier to pay $60 bux than scour the net for cracked version, which will be blocked by MS update service and will be major P.I.T.A. to keep running after it "calls home" and finds out it's been "blacklisted".
Not to mention all other reasons. If i could purchase it for $60 - I'd buy it. Alas, I'm not in school anymoar. :( Hence have to rely on my job to provide perpetual, non-expiring, corp edition (free) license. :D |
the magic jellybean is your friend. ;) |
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
the magic jellybean is your friend. ;) |
In quiet words of Virgin Mary, "Come again"? - I dun't get it.
edit: never mind. i found it. that's not quite a solution. using duplicate license from multiple systems is a certain way to get your license blocked. ms is not THAT stupid. come to think of it, their recent license verification model is pretty (scary) slick |
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| jfk-pilot |
| hmm interesting, but my university has a contract with microsoft, so students can i just take out copies from the library and install it, as many times as they want, same goes for vista and all the other ms products. :) |
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| Akridrot |
Although emc^2 is probably scaring off people by so goddamn defensive and IN-YOUR-FACE about it, some of you need to shut the up. This is actually a good deal, and I might take it.
Vista has been ing up for pirates with a black screen of death, who knows what they'll do with Office. |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
you don't seriously believe that psychobabble, do ya? |
It's not "psychobabble" at all. It's called a business strategy. Many other corporations offer their products at prices at student discounts for the same exact reason ;)
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
MS office format is about to become an international standard and you think that hooking some students on word would help salvage MS? You mean the intern maggots walking into giant corporations with COMPANY-MANDATED, pre-installed on your workstation/laptop microsoft product suite, are going to protest and say - GIVE ME OPEN OFFICE OR I QUIT!!!!???Face it buddy, like it or not MS ain't going anywhere. As much as I like open source stuff and happen to run number of different flavors of *nix, I have to be realistic. There's hardly any competition from products like open office or any other variant because MS is de-facto standard in the industry and pretty much everywhere else you look.
Tho, not to say that won't change sometime but I just don't see it happening anytime soon. |
That's besides the point.
I was actually giving a reason why the link you provided is pretty much legitimate and not a scam like others have suspected. ;) |
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| Boomer187 |
| wtf is legal software? |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
Microsoft just wants to get students hooked on the MS Office suite for cheap. When these students go into the working world, they'll be so accustomed to MS Office that they won't switch to any other office productivity software suite, which they'll have to buy at full price.
If you think about it, it's pretty much like drug dealing :toothless
So yeah, I'm pretty sure this is legit |
lol so true. |
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| chimera66 |
| what about if you have an .edu email address FOREVER...kinda dumb if they can't regulate. I need something new so why not. |
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| idoru |
Hey, Josh and I agree on something! Seriously, and it's free. Why the hell would anybody continue to pay for Microsoft bull when free, better alternatives exist? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
idoru likes to pretend we have a rivalry so he feels more important |
I said we had a rivalry? :conf: I disagree with a lot of the you spout when you get into arguments here, but 99% of the time I keep quiet. |
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