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Office 2011 - worth getting for $9.95?
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12-07-2013, 02:13 AM
OWC Larry wrote: Yep, the day ANY of them go to annual (granted, it's almost there now) renewal, I'm out! Same for so called cloud based programs - nope.
12-07-2013, 03:42 AM
My God, some of the questions here!
"This milk expired in 2003-should I drink it?" "Where can I get screws for an iBook instead of paying the rip-off price of a nickle?" "Should I get Office 2011 for $9.95?" $9.95? Are you serious, or was this a prank?
12-07-2013, 03:55 AM
Pizza, it's a real question. If I didn't work with windows users that truly only know Office, I wouldn't need this for even ten bucks.
12-07-2013, 04:26 AM
I live on Excel. I've used Open Office, Symphony, QuatroPro, etc. Excel alone is worth ten times that, and all of the other stuff thrown in for free?
No brainer, no brainer, no brainer. Doesn't matter who you work with, most people pee away that amount any given day.
12-07-2013, 04:35 AM
You should get it just to get virus protection. My understanding is they stopped supporting Office '08 (which is what I use). Besides, wouldn't you miss the 500mb security upgrade downloads?
12-07-2013, 04:36 AM
P.S. How does one qualify for this 9.95 upgrade? I don't suppose they offer it for self-employed folk. I poked around on the google for details and it looks like you need a code or something from your company to qualify. Is that correct?
12-07-2013, 12:07 PM
SteveO wrote: We get it for free from our college. They have a contract with MS that allows a certain number of activations on faculty home computers. The tech who handed me the disk told me that the college pays about $10 each for the disks. That must be the same thing. 
12-07-2013, 02:41 PM
SteveO wrote: Yeah - that's pretty much how it works; essentially companies are subsidizing their employees' ability to use the same software at both work and home. Microsoft is getting much more than $10 out of the deal; that's just the amount the employee has to cough up |
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