Anyone know of a cheap way of getting MS office pro 2013? Needs to be legit as my sis is looking for a copy for a new business she's setting up. It's £389 rrp, some places have it for £340-350, amazon has it for £318 but there's surely a better way of getting a copy? The smb and office 365 options work out costing more as far as I can tell so it's a single licence option. Apparently she wants the newest version and it has to be pro as she wants publisher. I've not bothered to point out the alternatives like older versions or alternatives because she won't listen.
I personally would it but she's all sensible and above board.
I can enquire about a copy from a school volume license if you like? Technically that's not legal either as it has to be on campus and for educational use I presume but it's still bought and paid for
Also you can buy the individual programs separately for about £100. Buy Publisher then use a free jobby for everything else?
Technet version and just make sure you only "evaluate it" for a long period of time before committing your [her] cash.
MS Office and the general non-IT public have always cracked me up; "It has a dancing paper clip, I must upgrade immediately!". I used to be the Microsoft Excel support many years ago when I first started, and I bet you pound to a penny that Office 4.3 would still probably do most things well that people actually need.
spoodie wrote:It's this attitude that maintains Microsoft's monopoly and the reason why it costs so much?
Totally, but that attitude is also held by big business which is why her clients want ms office stuff and her courses are in ms office stuff and why ms charge a fuckpile of money for what is essentially a small graphical update of the last few versions of office.
Hmm, Joose you may be on to something there. I think we also possess an employee discount thinger in work. I shall investigate.
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:It does, but disk 17 has an error, and I have no floppy drive.
Fun days, topped only by the helplessness felt when a Spectrum game failed to load being stuck on the splash screen with that fit inducing multicoloured border...
What does your sister need MS Office for that she cannot do with Outlook and a copy of LibreOffice?
It is a serious question because what does she actually want to do with her copy of MS Office that she feels she needs it so much? If it is simple stuff like using spreadsheets etc for accounting purposes then she is on a hiding to nothing at those prices. If webconferencing and email hosting are an essential part of the business model then she may want to consider Office Small Business 365 which works out at £3.90 per month. While this does seem a steep to "rent" a copy of Office it works out that you would need to rent it for 9 years before it became more expensive than buying a copy of MS Office outright - at which point they will have released a new copy of it anyway. While it is all web-based so the programs aren't on the PC, it does chuck in a load of other software such as email and website hosting at no additional costs and there is a 25Gb Sky Drive back up.
If your sister is looking for confidence in using Libre/Open Office then you can tell her that in October the authority I work for is looking at free, open source software as a replacement rather than re-licencing 400+ copies of MS Office at £380 per licence.
it but she's all sensible and above board. 
