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Dell has Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student (3 licenses) for $100 with free shipping. Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote 2010. It is licensed for installation on three PCs in the same household. Microsoft also offers Microsoft Office Professional Academic for $80 for qualified students.
$100
Why pay for this when Open Office is free?
Stupid assess posting this all over the internet. It is the same price ($99.99) at Amazon with free shipping and no tax (in most states). Without tax it comes out $7 or more dollars cheaper on Amazon.
Amazon one is for installation on one computer, where as this one is for 3.
#3, stop smoking crack. It is the exact DVD disk version as Dell. The description on Amazon says "It is licensed for installation on three PCs in the same household." Here is the link once you come out of your self induced coma -
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-2010-Student-Version/dp/B00337D8U6/ref=s11?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285343648&sr=8-1
Yeah. What he said!
Like #1 said, Open Office free, and is a polished software suite. No need for most of us to buy Office 2010. Try out the Open Office first.
Open Office rocks!... except if everyone you work with uses MS Office. Open Office says they support MSOffice formats but some stuff just doesn't convert properly. This is why MS has resisted or tried to dictate the open document standards. Even though we have a standard, the office apps will not save files in those standards by default. If you use open office you have to tell people to resend the file to you in open format.
What #7 says.
If you don't have to share your work with other people, then there is no need to buy. But, in the real world, 99.999% of business workers use M$ products, and you'd look like an rodeo cowboy if you sent them a document that looks all borked up when they open it. This is not an argument about which is better, it's one of compatibility. Personally, I'd rather not pay if I didn't have to.
I hate the newer offices. I can't find any of the functions I'm used to using. Open Office has everything 95% of people need and does away with the nonsense. The company I work for is ditching Office soon and switching to Open Office.
I'm still happy with the 2007 version.
# 9 is right, MS has lots of morons designing software. Take the common functions and hide them to make it look like you changed the software.
By the way, the exact same software was available at Dell with a free wireless mouse for $34.99 more. Had a nice online chat with a support rep asking why the same version with a FREE mouse was $34.99 more. After confirming Dell made an ass out of themselves, he said the $99 was a new promotion and the $134.99 with the free mouse was an older promotion. Any company with half a brain would have given people the $134 version for $99 when the stupidity of it was pointed out, but not Dell. I use OO too, so wouldn't have bought it. Just wanted to see what Dell had to say.
Insist they resend the docs in open standard formats or the problem will never be resolved, remembering they are causing problems everywhere - most people do not use Office 2010 yet including corporations or other businesses.
So, if you buy and use this you become the problem.
#4, once again you prove that your e-pencil is larger than mine. Thank you for helping bring me out of my self induced coma, though, it was a very nice coma. I'm glad you were able to point out that very important fact for all the people who surf bens bargains to see.
Now to go back to my self induced coma.
#13 , I am just messin with you. No malice intended.