Get Office Ultimate 2007 on the cheap

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 14th September 2007
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Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 is going for the low, low price of $59,95 for college students.

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 is going for the low, low price of $59,95 for college students.

Do you like Microsoft's Office productivity suite but don't like the slimmed down Home & Student Edition? Well listen up because Microsoft is basically giving the Ultimate edition away.

If you're a college or university student in the US, Great Britain or Canada and have a valid email address that end in ".edu" or "ac.uk" then you'll be able save $619 off of the retail price by picking it up for $59.95. Later on this month students in France, Italy and Spain will be able to gain the same deal.

If you're unable to provide all of the information requested by Microsoft though, you'll have to pay the full cost of $679.

Many of our fine academic institutions already offer discounts on Microsoft's products, but this promotion is coming straight out of Redmond. You better act fast on this if you're wanting to grab a copy at this low price as the promotion will end on 30 April 2008.

Of course you'll probably be able to pick up a copy on eBay for a reasonable price during the duration of the promotion and even if you don't feel like paying at all, there is always OpenOffice and StarOffice that are available for free.

Sound like the deal of a lifetime? Sound out over in the forums or in the comment section below.
Quote will. 14th September 2007, 14:32
I got the macromedia studio 8 the same way.. although I wasn't a student, my little brother was :p
Quote <A88> 14th September 2007, 14:37
If my uni doesn't give me Office for free, I'm getting that.

<A88>
Quote DeXtmL 14th September 2007, 15:00
Google brings a competition in the office suite.
Quote <A88> 14th September 2007, 15:06
Pardon?

<A88>
Quote oasked 14th September 2007, 15:12
This also covered in this forum thread:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=139402

Oh and $60 works out to be £38.95 in the UK, including VAT. I've got my copy. :)
Quote devdevil85 14th September 2007, 15:14
can anybody say "ebay" hehehe
Quote zerolock 14th September 2007, 15:15
I would rather go for openoffice, hurray for free software! :)
a nice move from microsoft though..
Quote TomD22 14th September 2007, 16:01
.edu? What? UK university web and e-mail addresses are .ac.uk
Quote Acehole 14th September 2007, 16:20
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Originally Posted by TomD22
.edu? What? UK university web and e-mail addresses are .ac.uk

ac.uk is ok too, look at the website ;)
Quote TomD22 14th September 2007, 16:31
Yeah, I just checked it out and saw that.

But the bittech article specifically says "If you're a college or university student in the US, Great Britain or Canada and have a valid email address that end in ".edu", which obviously isn't correct.
Quote Fr4nk 14th September 2007, 16:59
you can also get it for £12.50 for year which is pretty sweet :)
Quote DougEdey 14th September 2007, 17:24
Tbh, I'd rather support OOo and open standards rather then buggy poorly documented pseudo propriety ones.
Quote Edenalig 14th September 2007, 17:34
What about .sch.uk? Alot of students fall into those too......
Quote squeck 14th September 2007, 18:12
The .ac.uk domain is only for universities and six form colleges etc as far as i'm aware, whereas schools get the .sch.uk - so it looks like the offer is only open to uni students.
Quote fathazza 14th September 2007, 18:30
im game for this.

It says they will send you out disks for a small extra charge but i cant find out at what stage of the process the option for that is?
Quote Nexxo 14th September 2007, 18:35
NHS and some other government employees can get a copy for £17,95 under the Home Licence Scheme.
Quote Buzzons 14th September 2007, 18:38
Nice one from MS there, good un cheep yayz0rs.

Most CompSci courses offer the MSDNAA though, so if you are at uni doing compsci you should be able to get it from there for free
Quote crazybob 14th September 2007, 18:54
Just don't look forward to running that on Windows XP. It runs beautifully on Vista, but there's something different going on behind the scenes when you run it under XP. I was trying to do some data analysis in Excel 2007 on a friend's computer, and even with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, the system was absolutely crawling when I was working with graphs.
Quote oasked 14th September 2007, 19:21
Works fine for me on XP. :)
Quote rowpie 14th September 2007, 19:24
Few years ago when I was at uni I got XP Pro for £10 and Office 2000 Pro for £10 and they were both fully legit and still running to this day on my machine.

Most university computing departments can probably beat this offer but for those in other faculties then this sounds like a very good deal.
Quote ralph.pickering 14th September 2007, 19:38
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Originally Posted by crazybob
Just don't look forward to running that on Windows XP. It runs beautifully on Vista, but there's something different going on behind the scenes when you run it under XP. I was trying to do some data analysis in Excel 2007 on a friend's computer, and even with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, the system was absolutely crawling when I was working with graphs.

Hmmm. I think it's just your friend's computer. I'm running it on a laptop with a Pentium 3 M @1.2GHz with 768Mb RAM and it seems fairly snappy to me. I obviously can't have too many things open at once given the spec of my laptop, but I've had no trouble doing my Maths and Stats coursework. (And now it seems I can go legal, which is nice)
Students in the UK probably want to go here: http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/ - the site linked to in the article seems pretty focussed on US students.
Quote fathazza 14th September 2007, 20:17
so....

anyone know where in the order process the option to get the disc version is?
Quote crazybob 14th September 2007, 20:41
Quote:
Originally Posted by oasked
Works fine for me on XP. :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by ralph.pickering
Hmmm. I think it's just your friend's computer. I'm running it on a laptop with a Pentium 3 M @1.2GHz with 768Mb RAM and it seems fairly snappy to me. I obviously can't have too many things open at once given the spec of my laptop, but I've had no trouble doing my Maths and Stats coursework.
Works fine for both of you, but doing what kind of work? When my complaint arose, I was doing a spreadsheet with about 2500 collected data points in each of ten sheets, all open at the same time and referencing each other. When it came time to graph that data, it was almost unusably slow. Doing the same thing in 2K3, we had no problems.
Quote oasked 14th September 2007, 20:42
I couldn't find it myself. There is a £5 option to enable you to download it later, but no option for a cd. Bit of a shame really.
Quote fathazza 14th September 2007, 20:47
Quote:
Originally Posted by oasked
I couldn't find it myself. There is a £5 option to enable you to download it later, but no option for a cd. Bit of a shame really.

yeah thats all i can see too...




1. Purchase a Licence (Perpetual or Subscription): Upon purchase, you’ll be provided with a genuine Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 product key.
2. Download Office Ultimate 2007: If you don’t want to download, you can also order a physical DVD during the purchase process for a small charge.
3. Enter Your Genuine Product Key: Use the genuine product key to activate Office Ultimate 2007. If already installed, you can still enter the product key.
4. Enjoy your cool new version of Office Ultimate 2007!

Is on one of the other webpages tho, point 2 being the bit in question...

i dont get the £5 to be able to download it later either? Whats the point of paying for a permenant license if you cant download it again after a year normally...
Quote DXR_13KE 14th September 2007, 23:21
not coming to Portugal..... bah...... still have open office and the free office my uni gives me.... that i think is 2007..... cant remember.
Quote Techno-Dann 14th September 2007, 23:52
Still $59.95 more expensive than OpenOffice. Not for me, thanks!
Quote mrb_no1 16th September 2007, 01:04
i've just graduated, but i know i'll be using my uni email address to get a copy as i'm still using office 2003, hmmm, what radical and exciting changes might microsoft have made to the world of word processing and excel spreadsheets? maybe we get extra cool sounds in PPS's too....oh the anticipation :P

peace

fatman
Quote crazybob 16th September 2007, 01:33
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrb_no1
[sarcasm]
Joking aside, I think you'll be surprised. They've actually completely and totally changed the UI, and I have to admit that once you get used to it it's quite a bit more efficient than the old way.
Quote supertoad 16th September 2007, 04:37
no love for canadian students. i guess we'll just have to keep using the old definition of steal.
Quote MortarHeadd 16th September 2007, 05:10
too bad i graduated recently. oh well. i like open office better anyhow....
Quote cpemma 16th September 2007, 11:11
Quote:
Originally Posted by supertoad
no love for canadian students. i guess we'll just have to keep using the old definition of steal.
Quote:
Originally Posted by article
If you're a college or university student in the US, Great Britain or Canada and have a valid email address that end in ".edu" or "ac.uk" then you'll be able save $619 off of the retail price by picking it up for $59.95.
RTFA, this isn't digg. Or see my sig. ;)
Quote Nedsbeds 16th September 2007, 16:11
see below...
Quote Nedsbeds 16th September 2007, 16:46
Guys, to get the dvd, go here...
If that doesnt work then you go to the customer support page and then click "How do I start a new order? "
There is then a link which will present you with a list of things you can add including cds and dvds.


http://store.digitalriver.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=ResetShoppingCart&Env=BASE&Locale=en_GB&SiteID=msshuk

Nick

EDIT:
That brings the total up to 60.33 though :S
Quote fathazza 16th September 2007, 16:55
cheers nedsbeds i wonder why they made it so unintuitive to find...

that postage is extortionate isnt it!
Quote fathazza 16th September 2007, 17:35
great,

now it says i cant buy it because my address has already been registered.
when i go to log in to my account i cant because for some reason when i get to the login page i cant actually put my cursor into the username/email address login box...
Quote ComputerKing 17th September 2007, 11:24
OMG! I wish if I'm in University now :( This is not fair... But think on it when I'm at university they will sell Office 2008 or 2009 or 2010 or 2011 Who knows! mmm Dam From 600$ to 60$ This is one of kind sale!

Nice for those who got it ;) and bad for those who didn't. Take care guys. And Thanks for this info BT ;)
Quote Nedsbeds 23rd September 2007, 18:26
Hi,

Has anybody else done this yet? How long are emails with the product key in taking?

My brother paid yesterday and still hasn't had an email with the product key in it.

Thanks

Nick
Quote cpu121 25th September 2007, 01:12
Didn't take long for me at all. However, I believe you can find the product key when you log in to your account on the website to check order status.
Quote Nedsbeds 25th September 2007, 07:47
Quote:
Originally Posted by cpu121
Didn't take long for me at all. However, I believe you can find the product key when you log in to your account on the website to check order status.

are you completely sure about that? We can't see a product key on the order page, and when we try to access the invoice it starts spitting out error 500 messages.
Hmmm an email to customer services might be in order!
Quote cpu121 26th September 2007, 14:52
Not entirely - I read about some other people having problems with the email and that's how they seemed to get the key before the email arrived.
Quote Nedsbeds 26th September 2007, 15:06
Oh well, we sent an email off to customer services. They were extremely slow replying but now have the key. Couldn't find it when I logged in though.
Thanks
Nick
Quote seebul 30th November 2007, 17:44
Does this come retial boxed if you order the CD version?
Quote fathazza 30th November 2007, 18:52
Quote:
Originally Posted by seebul
Does this come retial boxed if you order the CD version?

it comes in a plasticated carboard wallet kind of thing, not the plastic box youd see in a shop
Quote seebul 30th November 2007, 19:34
Quote:
Originally Posted by fathazza
it comes in a plasticated carboard wallet kind of thing, not the plastic box youd see in a shop

Thanks for that! Buying one to stick on ebay!
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