Comments on: Download Office 2007 Ultimate for $59.95

Buddy up to your favorite college student, and you can save a small--no, make that large--fortune on Microsoft's top-end office suite.

[doinfine]

Vast majority of people do not use the majority of features available with any software. Open Office is perfectly fine for what people need to do the vast majority of the time. There are no absolutely critical features or conveniences that it lacks in compared to other products.

[giper]

Try using an alumni email address, they end in edu too.

[PolarExplorer]

Microsoft doesn't track the software as far as I can tell. I received a free no-retail copy of Microsoft Ultimate (full edition) 64 bit and 32 bit from Microsoft. I've been able to switch the OS between desktops and laptops without any issues when I switched to a new desktop and. I also have Microsoft Office 2007 that I acaquired on one of the goverment licenses and haven't had a problem running it on different systems or multiple systems that I use for work. $60 to get the full suite for $60 bucks is a steal and worth it. It's not an upgrade, its the full version which is better since it allows you to do a clean install.

If you don't want to shell out the money, use openoffice or another system.

[4ajd4]

Can I purchase one copy and install it on multiple PCs (i.e. laptop and desktop)? Do you know how long this offer will last?

P.S. I've gotten a few great deals from your site!

I am a college student. want my information to purchase?

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[dburr13]

I've been using OpenOffice for 2 years now and am very satisfied with it's performance...Paying any amount of money for MS Office 2007 just doesn't make any sense for me.

[obvio-capitao]

Here's my Top 10 List of Free/Open Source Software:

1) OpenOffice.org (office suite)
2) Mozilla Firefox (web browser)
3) Mozilla Thunderbird (email client)
4) Mozilla Sunbird (calendar)
5) Pidgin (instant messenger)
6) VLC (media player)
7) GIMP (photo editor)
8) Inkscape (vector drawing)
9) Miro (internet TV)
10) 7-zip (archiver)

I always install these tools on a new computer. No need to worry about what you can and cannot do. It's your computer, you do what you want.

And, just as a bonus:

11) Freemind (note taking/mind mapping)

[Donniebrasco]

I might try to get this using my brother's .edu address. He already has Office for free I guess from his school, so I need to see if his email could hook this for me. I use OpenOffice 3 right now, and while it gets the job done in Writer/Word and their Excel equivalent (as long as I don't bring home a file created in Office 2007), but I notice that when I brought a Powerpoint file home from work to edit, saving it in .ppt from OpenOffice resulted in the formatting getting screwed up all over.

Also, as far as I know, there is no free equivalent for Outlook.

[obvio-capitao]

What do you want? An email client? A calendar?

3) Mozilla Thunderbird (email client)
4) Mozilla Sunbird (calendar)

(From the post above ;))

[haub123]

As a student who has used this, it is a really good deal because it is more then what my school would have given me for less then what they would have charged me.

[khamma]

I wouldn't give $5 for it. Horrible - yes I'm going to say it again - HORRIBLE HUGE ribbon! AND I hardly recognized Access. I purchased it once and after two days raced it back to the store - I made it ride in the trunk - then I bought the 2003 version. I am now through with MS Office. When I can no longer use the version I have I will switch to something else.

[tsmoore]

We tried Open Office at my job as a way of saving $$ it has turned out to be a PITA.

Similar is not the same! It should be ok for most home users but it just came up short in interacting with docs and forms from MS world that we had. I can't get the wheel reinvented if we have to recreate every form or database we touch with MS Office then cost of the free software is lost work hours.

I install it on friends machines as part of basic setup and tell them about web resources to find info.

[dkriss]

You can't get it you go to a large school. My son goes to Georgia Tech, my niece goes to the University of Georgia and a friend goes to Kennesaw State. These are the three largest public colleges in the state. None are eligible. The schools I recognize are all small.

[rickbroida]

Are you positive about that? The list of "approved institutions" are simply those that don't provide .edu e-mail addresses to their students. Just because your schools aren't on the list doesn't mean they're not eligible.

[LisaFayGreen]

What "Am I eligible" link????

[gjl229]

My employer has an arrangement with MS in which we can purchase one copy for one machine for home use. I'm using Office 2007 and Visio Enteprise but there are others, as well. They're $21 each for discs, shipped, tax paid.

We don't have an Adobe deal, alas, or I'd have CS4 in addition to my Lightroom/Elements.

[Prosercunus]

My local Tech school offers Vista Ultimate for free and Office Student for free.

Its certainly not unheard of... however adobe products we get but we have to uninstall them after class is done.

[smatofu]

Even if you get MS Office for free now, at a certain point, it will become incompatible with new Windows OS, so you will have to pay $150/$500 x number of computers.

[prince10bee]

Microsoft Office kicks ass! Yes OpenOffice is a good alternative, & is cross-compatible with MS Office 2007, there are still a lot of features it lacks (including the great GUI).

[wskel]

Why is Download.com just now finding out about this? This offer had been around for almost a year and then they suspended it and renewed it. Hopefully they add Windows 7 to their list of products and completely ignore the fact Windows Vista ever existed in the first place, but I'm probably hoping against hope anyway.

[ChronicChaos]

I paid $23 and some change after taxes for this program through my place of work.

[bfowles]

I got my copy of office xp pro academic this way back in 2001, and it was twice as much then. Its a great deal just for access alone! I've used openoffice and even carry a jumpdrive with it in case i need a word processor, but for the more technical programs microsoft is the gold standard.