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Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60 for Students

- Rob Bushway

We all know the student budget is a tight one. So, for students, this deal from Microsoft cannot be beat: students will be able to purchase Office Ultimate 2007 for just $60, that is a $620 savings over retail - check it out at Microsoft's TheUltimateSteal.com . The offer is valid through April 30, 2008, and starts in less than 3 hours.

Office Ultimate 2007 includes the following apps:

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Accounting Express

Publisher

Access

Infopath - a great app for developing ink enabled forms

Groove

OneNote - yep, the best unknown Tablet PC application out there today !

Update: By the way, for those who might doubt the legitimacy of this program, here is Microsoft's official press release on "the Ultimate Steal"

via Microsoft.BlogNewsChannel.com

Microsoft | Office | Tablet PC

9/12/2007 11:47 AM MST

Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60 for Students Comments [12] | Digg This | del.icio.us | Citations

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:22:36 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Wow, what a steal. I just registered few minutes ago. This is not a scam right? I hope not!

Willy

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:40:39 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

As far as I can tell, it is completely on the up and up, and a Microsoft run program.

Rob

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:09:47 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Makes me want to enroll in school just to get this deal!

AZhiker

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:51:45 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Hmmmm, why does the clock reset when I refresh the page? It ran down to zero and said it is available, but I didn't get an email.

I refreshed the page, and now, it is counting down 2+hours, again.

What's up, Rob?
Steven

Steven Holman

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:55:57 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

no clue, steven. could be a bug in the flash programming - who knows....let's watch the page as it turns in to tomorrow.

Rob

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:59:34 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Here is the official press release from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/sep07/09-12ultimatesteal.mspx?rss_fdn=Top%20Stories

Rob

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:24:16 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

The Ultimate Steal is the deal my employer (a University) has with Microsoft. OneNote 2007 for students, faculty, or staff for $15.90! OneNote 2003 for $16.48 -- some subtle hinting going on here?

K0LO

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:09:51 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Is this open for teachers too??

Tablet Teacher

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:43:19 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

From the press release:

The majority of higher education students in the countries where the promotion is offered should be eligible. To be considered eligible, a student must be actively enrolled at an educational institution and hold a valid e-mail address at that institution. If a student’s e-mail address can’t be verified, they can provide additional information to us so we can work on adding them in the near future.

doesn't look like teachers qualify...

Rob

Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:04:25 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

There is some diabolical genius from Microsoft in this:
1. $60 is something student will bite at, rather than trying to pirate the software (or more likely just stay with an older version of Word (which are also easier to pirate)
2. Professors will start getting documents to grade (many classes now let you submit online) in the Word 2007 format, which might just force them to upgrade sooner and thus propagate Office 2007 quicker than it's current pace.

cphickie

Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:59:37 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Yeah, but the educational discounts already bring microsoft software down to around that 60$ level, so I don't think it really does that.

Mystific

Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:23:21 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

If this has an academic license(full retail version with restricted agreement), you are not legally entitled to use the software after leaving school. For the law abiding among us, that is a gotcha.

If this is just discounted software(the way it should be), then that is different; but I don't think MSFT has become that nice.

OpenOffice is a great alternative and free.

Also professors decide format.

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