Microsoft Office

carly burn

Bought a laptop and got this free for a month. Now expired but think my boy will need it for school.

Where's the best place to get it? Official Microsoft site want £60 for the year or £120 for a lifetime purchase.

Found it on a place called 'software pro world' that have the downloadable professional pro version for £35 for the lifetime deal.

Should 3rd party site be trusted for a downloadable version or should I go straight to Microsoft?

PopIcon

Don't waste your money. I use this https://www.libreoffice.org/

Opens the same files, does a lot of the same things, looks almost the same and best of all its free.

Bedsaddick

My son came home with homework a few weeks that required him having Microsoft office to open the PowerPoint to do it. I found out it would cost me £120 or £5.99 a month just to do half an hours homework. What a complete rip off!
I told him that I will let him skip the homework and if the school have a problem then they should ring me.
They then gave him lunchtime detention for not doing it! I went mad and stormed up to the school. I came away with an apology and a disc with Microsoft office on it!
At the the end of the day it's the schools job to supply it not yours.

Exiled_Addick

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukschools/2015/02/23/students-and-teachers-in-the-uk-can-now-check-eligibility-for-free-office-from-their-school/

RanTooFar

You can buy second hand Office keys from eBay for peanuts. Using one for a while now, worth a punt.

carly burn

Exiled_Addick said:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukschools/2015/02/23/students-and-teachers-in-the-uk-can-now-check-eligibility-for-free-office-from-their-school/

Definitely chasing that one up mate, so thanks.

Just tried to register but its sends the verification code to the school.

Wheresmeticket

Haven't used office for years. As said download libre office suite. Reads and writes ms files if you want.

eaststandmike

I have just bought a £35.00 copy that was downloaded for my wife's laptop and it works like a dream however if you want a freebie that works as well try the following link which is Open Office.

https://www.openoffice.org/

AddicksAddict

I echo those saying use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with it.

JohnBoyUK

erm...cough cough...torrent...or easynews...cough cough ahem. Use a vpn for piece of mind.

Daughter needed office on her PC for school. Sorted with one quick search and download with crack.

My bro has got the microsoft licence that allows him to download official copies of all their tools, including office so can easily get a legit copy but there you go.

Only software I pay for is the Adobe Creative Licence, which gives me Lightroom, Photoshop and Premier.

Swisdom

If you have Office365 at work you can register it on 5 devices I think.

No brainer

razil

Student licensing can sometimes be an option think schools have to participate, worth looking into tho

IdleHans

I used software4students to get discs for my children a few years ago, which were cheap and legit.
But when I needed it on a new laptop recently I paid <£20 for a key on eBay for the professional suite, followed simple instructions, and it works like a dream. It's legitimate too, and updates when it needs to.

cafcfan

However small the amount, I can't believe anyone is prepared to pay anything at all for this Microsoft product.

Both Libreoffice, (which came pre-packaged in the Linux OS system I use on one machine) and Apache OpenOffice (which I use on my Windows OS machine), do precisely the same job (if not better) and are open-source entirely free products.

Why would you choose something you have to pay for?

If anyone can be arsed, here's a comparison table. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office