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MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam. The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.'"

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  1. Re:IE7 declares... by SEMW · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it doesn't; I've just tried it.

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  2. Re:Microsoft mistake lead to office price cut by mschuyler · · Score: 2, Informative

    > We're being played

    Microsoft has ALWAYS had student/academic and non-profit deals out there. Look in any University bookstore at very good prices. You don't even have to do that with a student ID card. You can just declare you're a student and buy it online. This is a particularly good deal, but the fact is, I've never paid over $60.00 for a full office suite ever, because Microsoft sells to schools and libraries at a heavy discount.

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  3. Re:Does it .... by shudde · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.

    There's a simple answer, Fosters isn't beer. We just export that swill, no one here actually drinks it.

  4. Re:Ultimate? by SEMW · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all the MS Office products I've used, generally there's been a Standard (Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) and Pro (Add Access and I believe frontpage). So what does "ultimate" bring to the table? Pro has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher; Ultimate adds OneNote, Groove, and InfoPath. What are Groove and Infopath, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine, because I have no ****ing idea whatsoever. Microsoft claim Groove is a "peer-to-peer collaboration solution", which has left me only slight more enlightened than before. Onenote's supposed to be pretty good, though.

    I have to ask, what's so good about an office produce that makes it worth more than a grand Ultimate is $590 in US dollars, the article was in Australian dollars.
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  5. Re:On a related topic.. by moronoxyd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, that may be true for the US and Australia, but customer rights are (for the most part) no empty shells in Germany and the E.U., so that doesn't hold true over here.

    We can also legally buy OEM versions without hardware, so if you are in need of some MS OS and want to spent as little as possible while staying legal...

  6. Re:What kind of paperwork is needed by SEMW · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quote>What kind of paperwork is needed for my company to be recognized as a "university" It would need to be accredited.

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  7. Re:licensing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I know that at least for my school, the MSDNAA licencing covers everything EXCEPT Office. Probably because they know students actually need that one, and will fork over the money for it.

  8. Meanwhile by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 2, Informative

    the Microsoft Anti-Phishing filter fails to find web sites selling OEM versions of Microsoft's software if the user makes a typo in the URL to any of the Microsoft web sites. Offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for $50, Vista Ultimate for $65, and other discounts on so called OEM software that is really pirated versions of Microsoft software and the personal information is sold and used for identity theft so the buyer gets burned twice.

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  9. Re:licensing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The volume license agreement that is covered infact does not allow for home use by students, it's simply a way for the University to save money by not paying for each and every student's home use rights (like they do for staff in this case) and still provide an option for the Office package.
    this poster works for one of the universities offering the software as an SOE developer so I have to know the licensing arrangements!

  10. Hope its not a phishing site! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just ordered my copy online, got the produt key and just have to download the install file.

    I guess I'll find out soon how legit the offer is :D

  11. Re:Does it .... by snicho99 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Amen brother.

    No one out there really seems to get it. Fosters - goes in the same category with Rolf Harris, Steve Irwin (god bless him) and Crocodile Dundee:

    Shit we foist on other people.

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  12. Re:Does it .... by morethanapapercert · · Score: 4, Informative
    And if you had watched a Coors commercial or read a Coors label, it also would have appeared to have been brewed in Canada. For most "imported" beers available in Canada, it does not make sense to ship large quantities of cans or (fragile) bottles from one country to another. Beer goes bad rather quickly when traveling in uneven temps like you find on board ship.* Instead, foreign brewers that make popular swill ^h^h^h^h beer will license the name and various copyrighted logos etc to a local/domestic brewer who makes the actual product using local water, barley, hops and so on. Here in Ontario Budweiser and Stella Artois are brewed by Labatt's while Coors Lite and Corona Extra are brewed by Molson's under license. Many of the better foreign beers are actually imported since the better quality can command a higher price, high enough to make importing the comparative small numbers profitable.

    Check out www.labatt.com and www.molson.com for more info (warning, the Labatt site has an annoying and worthless age check. Feel free to lie, I did ;) ) *I'm told that trying to ship beer long ways with inadequate refrigeration is behind the origin of the various India Pale Ales. During the early days of British colonialism in places like India, the British Empire shipped large amounts of beer to the colonies. Lagers, Porters and Stouts tend to go bad the quickest when warm, so brewers came up with a pale beer that traveled well and was very refreshing to dry throats despite being shipped in unrefrigerated cargo holds for weeks.

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  13. Re:Does it .... by Tsagadai · · Score: 2, Informative

    The chaser http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/ is actually humour to be enjoyed. I know Chris and Julian personally and tehy are really funny guys. Julian got arrested for streaking through a streakers trial, you can't get much funnier than that. Also for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about most of the episodes are available freely from the site I linked.