Microsoft Office Subscriptions

[Nick]

Got an e mail telling me that my Office subscription has lapsed and that Office will cease to work on my pooter tonight 

Ideally I want to buy it on disk so that I pay a one off price, but they seem to be making this a tad difficult 

Any suggestions? Have tried the freee alternatives (Open Office) but don't really get on with them. Or does someone have a disk they can lend me, like 

[Barman]

Got an e mail telling me that my Office subscription has lapsed and that Office will cease to work on my pooter tonight 

Ideally I want to buy it on disk so that I pay a one off price, but they seem to be making this a tad difficult 

Any suggestions? Have tried the freee alternatives (Open Office) but don't really get on with them. Or does someone have a disk they can lend me, like 

I have a disk but it is Office 2003...

Open Office is excellent - you have to persist with it and some things are (rather annoyingly) in different places but a quick Google always points you in the right direction...

A bargain at the price! 

[Miss Demeanour]

we have a special offer on at work at the moment - cos they have just introduced Office 365  and they are selling it to staff for home use for the offer of a tenner for the download and another tenner for the dvd backup disk 

[Nick]

 

[Steve]

Got an e mail telling me that my Office subscription has lapsed and that Office will cease to work on my pooter tonight 

Ideally I want to buy it on disk so that I pay a one off price, but they seem to be making this a tad difficult 

Any suggestions? Have tried the freee alternatives (Open Office) but don't really get on with them. Or does someone have a disk they can lend me, like 

Well it's £162 at Amazon (£94 if personal use).  Is that "a tad difficult"?     Pricey maybe.

And yes in my experience those free ones can be incomplete.  Some of the cleverer features just aren't there as I found out with conditional formatting.  OK for 99.9% of personal use.

[Nick]

I  got fed up off "renting" it for £80 a year

Might look at the AMazong version

[Nick]

Downloaded Home and Student for one off payment of £74

[apc2010]

Downloaded Home and Student for one off payment of £74

    

[Steve]

Downloaded Home and Student for one off payment of £74

And you are never going to use it for business?

IIRC Home and Student leaves a detectable watermark in every document created

[Barman]

Downloaded Home and Student for one off payment of £74

And you are never going to use it for business?

IIRC Home and Student leaves a detectable watermark in every document created

[Nick]

 

Nah, just checked it. All fine 

[Steve]

Downloaded Home and Student for one off payment of £74

And you are never going to use it for business?

IIRC Home and Student leaves a detectable watermark in every document created

So lets get this right

Could they do it? Yes
Why wouldn't they do it?  No reason
Can anyone decode that preamble at the front of every Office file?  No


The only question is would they actually act on it? 

[Nick]

 

[Barman]

Just buy the proper thing...

[Nick]

I have and it bleddy works