What/where is cheapest for M$ office ?

Where to buy ?

Four ways:
1. Are you a student? If so, there are discounts and whatnot. Ask IT department or faculty.
2. Do you work for a company that has one of those "free applications" subscriptions? Ask at work.
3. Get OpenOffice. Just as good as MS Office for everyday tasks. And it's free.
4. Bite the bullet and shell out around 100$ for a Home & Student edition.

You should consider getting a technet subscription. It's $200 a year and you'll recieve something like 5 licenses for just about all MS products. Pretty good stuff.

TempliNocturnus said:

You should consider getting a technet subscription. It's $200 a year and you'll recieve something like 5 licenses for just about all MS products. Pretty good stuff.

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Are there any special requirements for technet? like you have to be a developer, or something like that?

x509 said:

Are there any special requirements for technet? like you have to be a developer, or something like that?

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You just have to be an "IT Professional".

Can i be a google certified IT professional ?

x509 said:

Are there any special requirements for technet? like you have to be a developer, or something like that?

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There are no requirements to sign up for technet, but the software licenses you get through technet are severely limiting. The limitations make the licenses fairly worthless for most home users.

The two main limitations are:
1. no one can use the computers the software is installed on except for you (not your family, friends, roomates, etc.)
2. In most cases you can't use the software for personal or business use. It is for test installs only. There are exceptions, like the higher end MSDN subscriptions allows for 1 copy of Office to be used for personal use, but they cost over a grand.


There were alot of sales on the Home and Student version of office for Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday it was $95 for the 3 license version. Might be worth checking out a site like slickdeals.net for holiday sales.

DaveHCYJ said:

The two main limitations are:
1. no one can use the computers the software is installed on except for you (not your family, friends, roomates, etc.)

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Exactly how does MS enforce that limitation?

2. In most cases you can't use the software for personal or business use. It is for test installs only.

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And how do they know that I am, or am not, actually using the software for something productive?

There are exceptions, like the higher end MSDN subscriptions allows for 1 copy of Office to be used for personal use, but they cost over a grand.

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Cheaper to pay retail, as much as I had to admit that.

There were alot of sales on the Home and Student version of office for Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday it was $95 for the 3 license version. Might be worth checking out a site like slickdeals.net for holiday sales.

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OK, but that doesn't include all the goodies in Office Professional Plus.