posted: Aug. 17, 2008 @ 10:48a
smccormick22 said:"The Ultimate Steal" is a steal alright. With a .edu account you can get the program for a ridiculously low price, but it's going to cost you $2.40 each time you open MS Office. This 60.00 license only allows you to open the program 25 times. From the MS website:
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. Each trial provides (1) 25 application launches (each launch of an individual Office Ultimate application is counted as one launch) before the software goes into reduced functionality mode (at which time your software behaves similarly to a viewer, you cannot save modifications to documents or create any new documents, and additional functionality might be reduced); and (2) the opportunity to purchase the following perpetual license for the Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 software.
You're much better off using Open Office or paying $100 for the Student and Teacher edition at Newegg or Frys or somewhere.
If you had continued reading for about 4 seconds longer you would have found the following:
Eligible university and college students may have free access to Microsoft Office 2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. Each trial provides (1) 25 application launches (each launch of an individual Office Ultimate application is counted as one launch) before the software goes into reduced functionality mode (at which time your software behaves similarly to a viewer, you cannot save modifications to documents or create any new documents, and additional functionality might be reduced); and (2) the opportunity to purchase the following perpetual license for the Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 software:
College Student Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 (USD$59.95) Perpetual license, which includes the following applications:
* Access™ 2007
* Accounting Express 2007
* Excel® 2007
* InfoPath® 2007
* Groove® 2007
* OneNote® 2007
* Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager*
* PowerPoint® 2007
* Publisher 2007
* Word 2007