[Coco] OT: Crazy Microsoft office ultimate academic deal

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Dunno if it's a real deal or not, as I haven't clicked on the link and don't plan to.  OpenOffice is free and more stable than any MS Office dreck I've ever been forced to use in various bouts of employment.  It's nice that they might be selling the stuff at a price 90% closer to its actual value.  But since the only machine I boot with a Microsoft operating system (unless you count several BASIC ROMs) is a Tandy 6000HD that I guarantee would not run this software, Microsoft support of the OS being discontinued long before Tandy discontinued the system, I'll stick with functional software.  Even at a tenth of the list price, you get joined at the hip to Redmond.

Well, less than an hour to go if the time limit is midnight on the east coast, almost four hours if the deadline is Redmond time.  I have to work in the morning so I guess I'll go to bed.
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London.  Still, somebody might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to play a part, you might as well play it all the way, at least in public -- and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "tonym" <tonym at compusource.net>
> I thought some of you might appreciate this...maybe you have kids in college, 
> going to college..
> 
> Microsoft is offering for one day only, today, Office Ultimate Edition for 
> $59.95. This has
> everything in it, I think retail is like $500-600.
> 
> www.theultimatesteal.com
> 
> Ya need to have access to an email address at a .EDU though. You enter in the 
> email addy, and
> it emails a link to the address.
> 
> Not a bad deal, for excel, access, Word, Ourlook, PowerPoint
> 
> Got it for my wife, as she is working on her BS at Florida Atlantic
> 
> They will apparently have Windows Vista Ultimate for $65 at the same site on 
> 9/8/2008
> 
> I think the deal ends at midnight, or I think you had to have registered for it, 
> and gotten the email by
> midnight.
> 
> Tony


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