A steal for college students $59.95

[JulieB]

Originally Posted by jgannon

If you have a .edu address and aren't actually a student, that deal is probably pretty hard to beat. However, I'm guessing that a lot of universities have better bargains than this if you go directly through them. The computer store here at CMU has Office for $30, Windows XP for $15, and substantial discounts on a ton of other products.

at my school a copy of office 2003 is almost $90.00 for a year i think

[Doug G]

Academic Pricing for OfficePro 2007 is $74 per seat. Office Standard is $55 per seat. As long as you are an educational institution you qualify (ie the PO is a school). As for Academic (Non-College) Student versions it is about twice as much. Here's where I've bought licenses in the past for my school.

https://www.atlaz.com/Merchant2/merc...od e=swmiclic

There are hundreds of authorized resellers that charge about the same amount.

[Generalx5]

I got mine for free too. But thats only because I have connections.

[alex1699]

why not get a sandisk flash drive or something and put open office on it.
for free that is what i use now

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by alex1699

why not get a sandisk flash drive or something and put open office on it.
for free that is what i use now

I used OpenOffice exclusively on my laptop for almost two years.

It's a great program, especially since it is free. But the reason why I ultimately moved back to Office (besides getting it for free through my school) was that OpenOffice still lags behind MS Office in the feature department by about several years. (Although I am quite mad that Office 2007 can't even read ODF files straight out of the box...) :-/

If having the latest and greatest in features is not an issue, and you want to save some money, OpenOffice is a great option.