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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:14 PM
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Where's a good place (as in cheap) to buy software

I'm reaching out to the mighty brain trust of Acurazine for some help. I need to buy Microsoft Office Suite for the home computers. Can anyone recommend a good place to buy it at a reasonable price?
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:19 PM
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What specifically do you need?

You can get Office Home and Student 2007 - Excel, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote - from Amazon for $105.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...5933844&sr=8-1
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:34 PM
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I have had luck here:

http://www.royaldiscount.com/product...ional&stateful
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:34 PM
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Does your company do work-at-home licenses? I have Office Enterprise on my computer for $40.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:39 PM
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What is a work at home license?
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
What is a work at home license?
It's a deal with Microsoft negotiated by my employer. The license is only valid as long as I'm employed but $40 for the entire Office suite is a pretty cool deal.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by moeronn
What specifically do you need?

You can get Office Home and Student 2007 - Excel, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote - from Amazon for $105.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...5933844&sr=8-1
This will allow installs to three computers. IIRC
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:58 PM
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by svtmike
It's a deal with Microsoft negotiated by my employer. The license is only valid as long as I'm employed but $40 for the entire Office suite is a pretty cool deal.
Nice. We definitely don't have it...
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by svtmike
It's a deal with Microsoft negotiated by my employer. The license is only valid as long as I'm employed but $40 for the entire Office suite is a pretty cool deal.
$$$$$
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 07:44 PM
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Yes home and office will work on on 3 pcs, so that's about $34 per PC, that's a good deal.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 07:45 PM
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Also if I were you I'd wait until the beginning of March cause MS is supposed to have a deal where if you buy office 2007 after march you can upgrade to the office 2010 version for free when it's released in June.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:01 PM
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:01 PM
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by moeronn
What specifically do you need?

You can get Office Home and Student 2007 - Excel, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote - from Amazon for $105.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...5933844&sr=8-1
Need to get Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by svtmike
Does your company do work-at-home licenses? I have Office Enterprise on my computer for $40.
That's a great deal but the company i work at doesn't offer this.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 65 Fury Convert
Need to get Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
That version has all three
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by moeronn
What specifically do you need?

You can get Office Home and Student 2007 - Excel, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote - from Amazon for $105.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...5933844&sr=8-1
That's a pretty good deal. Thanks for the heads up
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:17 PM
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I've bought a lot of cheap software from http://www.buycheapsoftware.com/
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 09:20 PM
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by svtmike
It's a deal with Microsoft negotiated by my employer. The license is only valid as long as I'm employed but $40 for the entire Office suite is a pretty cool deal.
Out of curiosity, who did you pay the $40 to? I've never heard of work-at-home rights being an optional a la carte purchase under any licensing agreement. It's usually everyone under an agreement is licensed for work-at-home or no one is. I work in higher education though so maybe things are different in the current incarnations of Microsoft's corporate licensing programs. Regardless, I just hope you didn't pay $40 to your employer for something that they already paid for.
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 11:21 PM
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There's always OpenOffice which is a great free alternative to Office. http://www.openoffice.org/
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 12:30 AM
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http://www.microsoft.com/student/dis...s/default.aspx

Here's one at 60 bucks for students.

All you need is find someone with an .edu email address or qualifying email address.
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 02:04 AM
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There's always OpenOffice which is a great free alternative to Office. http://www.openoffice.org/
I've used this for years now and it works great. It has all the functions I've ever needed and even saves my work in MS file extensions.
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 02:09 AM
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i know a guy who can get any software any version for 50 bucks you want his email??
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by DoubleSh0t
There's always OpenOffice which is a great free alternative to Office. http://www.openoffice.org/
This. An absolute dream.
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Billiam
Out of curiosity, who did you pay the $40 to? I've never heard of work-at-home rights being an optional a la carte purchase under any licensing agreement. It's usually everyone under an agreement is licensed for work-at-home or no one is. I work in higher education though so maybe things are different in the current incarnations of Microsoft's corporate licensing programs. Regardless, I just hope you didn't pay $40 to your employer for something that they already paid for.
Directly to Microsoft.
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by svtmike
Does your company do work-at-home licenses? I have Office Enterprise on my computer for $40.
We have a similar deal here, but only had to pay $20 to have the CD shipped to me. Hopefully they will (are) offering dowloadable versions now.
Need to upgrade to Office 2007 at home.
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Old Feb 12, 2010 | 02:51 PM
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we have this share employee software for home use at my work too... the whole MS Office Suite for $9.99
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