[Coco] OT: Crazy Microsoft office ultimate academic deal

[Mike Pepe]

Ward, decaf?

Seriously, you guys make me laugh.

:)

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of wdg3rd at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:14 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Crazy Microsoft office ultimate academic deal
> 
> 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
>