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Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail

Posted by samzenpus on from the almost-free dept.

tora201 writes "Microsoft Australia is offering university students in that country Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition for just $75 Australian dollars, a 95% discount off the usual retail price. Alternatively students can buy a one year renewable license at just $25, or download a trial version that can be later activated. Eligibility is determined through a valid Australian university e-mail address with payment made via credit card."

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  1. Re:But the sad thing is... by MrShaggy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Im not sure, but I've heard that it runs linnuks.. so its gotsa to beee good.

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  2. Re:You idiot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More ddupes plz!

    We likes em!!!11

    and More idiots too!!!!!!!1111111

  3. Re:Ethics by argStyopa · · Score: 1, Troll

    You mean, pretty much the same strategy Apple has used for decades?

    To whit: supply systems at ridiculous discounts to schools and students, so that their life-experience with computers when they start buying their own is entirely mac-based?*

    * now with the added bonus of 'social cachet' - if you buy Apple products you "think different"! (just like EVERYONE ELSE who buys into the market-cred of being a cool, elite Mac user, not one of those tawdy, workaday galley slaves, ^H^H^H office clerks that have to slave away on "PeeCees", the poor helpless bastards)

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  4. Reality check by alienmole · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now, I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here, but realistically, ribbons are a UI improvement over menus and toolbars.
    That seems unlikely, since many people here won't be ponying up cash to use Microsoft Office 2007 on Microsoft Windows just because Microsoft has a new UI trick.

    Some of us, myself included, invested quite some effort to escape the clutches of Microsoft, and the reasons for doing that weren't some kind of irrational "hatred" that will evaporate when Microsoft dangles a new shiny. It has to do with locking customers into their products at every level (I know Exchange admins who would kill to escape Microsoft), while at the same time locking customers out of the information they need to integrate with their products (e.g. data formats, source code), not to mention treating customers like criminals.

    Frankly, your post reads like you just received your first month's check from Microsoft for astroturfing Slashdot. So no, you don't hate Microsoft as much as the next guy here.