AT&T Tech Support 360Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it.
Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a promotion, dubbed
The promotion runs through April 30 and starts Wednesday in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It launches next week in France, Italy and Spain. To be eligible, Microsoft said students have to be "actively enrolled" in a higher education program and have an e-mail address from that school.
"We're listening to students who have told us they need Microsoft Office for their studies and want more flexible ways to get the latest version," Alan Yates, general manager of Worldwide Education at Microsoft, said in a statement. "The Ultimate Steal is the latest in a long history of providing compelling academic offers for students."
Microsoft tried the promotion earlier this year as a pilot program in Australia, before deciding to offer it in the U.S.
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Microsoft's proprietary formats.
Even Apple's Pages can read and write to those formats.
And, yes, we have been thinking about dumping Office 2003 to go with OpenOffice. MS should be more forward thinking and target highschoolers as well before they get used to OpenOffice. By college, it will be too late...
Sean Gum
SeanGum.com
My comments:
http://www.stonethembas.com/files/
603cdb26b2e0637863c6638e96f67f1a-150.html
This is the second benevolent thing that Microsoft has done today (the first being the announcement of opening up Vista's search). C'mon people just let it go...
I'm thinking there's both, and MSFT is desperately doing everything it can to stop what's coming (as evidenced by this little fire sale of theirs, attempts at corrupting the ISO on OOXML's behalf, etc).
I'm guessing that fear is going to become a larger and larger factor in Redmond as time passes, and their marketshare begins to drop...
/P
KieranMullen
http://360oregon.com
MS must be getting desperate.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/freetards-in-deep-denial.html
This article is about Linux vs Windows, but very well applies to MS Office vs OpenOffice too
Enjoy!
Look at who it's registered to.
Seriously, do what your advertisers and readers expect: investigate, don't just report. sheesh.
No way that students have said this. In reality they are pirating the software or using Open Office or Google Docs and this is simply Microsoft's response to that.
What crap. As if students ring them up and say "I need Microsoft Office for my studies and want it in more flexible ways".
HA HA HA. Microsoft thinks everybody is stupid. I guess they believe that because lots of people use their software.
I went to theultimatesteal.com on Sep.12 and checked the site during the day until the countdown was 0 but there was nothing new to show. Today Sep. 13 I went to check it again and it says You can grab the steal in: 4hrs 3min... very funny microsoft....
How can we take
bought hotcakes? Actaully, maybe that's a good analogy to use
after all. lol.
- Use OpenOffice.org
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by xconsole
September 16, 2007 4:59 AM PDT
- if you are going to use (and get hooked on) an office suite start using something you and the ppl you work with, teach, help ...., will be able to use in the future with out paying a fortune (think of the freedom also if you want, which is the most important to some of us :))
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See all 35 Comments >>use : http://www.openoffice.org/
* at least give it a try *
ps: doesn't this m$ tactic have something with selling drugs, give it for free 1st and get them hooked.....