Buying Microsoft Tools

[Dingbat]

Hi All
Just registered
And just ventured into contracting world, taking voluntary redundancy after 26 years as employee
I'm primarily a project manager / 'consultant', mainly in field of integration/interfacing, but software development too.
Just completing first contract, a very short part time 8 day piece on an integration strategy
My question is - as I hope to get PM roles - what/where is the best value option for obtaining MS Project and Visio?
PCWorld said they only do regular Office suite
MS site was very confusing/misleading, though they did ring me up, and suggest licenses through them or an MS partner for Office/Project/Visio licenses at roughly £8/£15/£9 per month respectively, which I guess may be reasonable....?
Otherwise it seems to be spending circa £1,500 to buy Project and Visio, and then presumably pay for upgrades and/or license renewals..
Any advice much appreciated
Thanks

[Echo1234]

Hi All
Just registered
And just ventured into contracting world, taking voluntary redundancy after 26 years as employee
I'm primarily a project manager / 'consultant', mainly in field of integration/interfacing, but software development too.
Just completing first contract, a very short part time 8 day piece on an integration strategy
My question is - as I hope to get PM roles - what/where is the best value option for obtaining MS Project and Visio?
PCWorld said they only do regular Office suite
MS site was very confusing/misleading, though they did ring me up, and suggest licenses through them or an MS partner for Office/Project/Visio licenses at roughly £8/£15/£9 per month respectively, which I guess may be reasonable....?
Otherwise it seems to be spending circa £1,500 to buy Project and Visio, and then presumably pay for upgrades and/or license renewals..
Any advice much appreciated
Thanks

You can try to get onto the Bizspark program.
https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
It basically gives you full access to the Microsoft software catalog for 3 years. Your limited company must be under 3 years old I think. I recommend you set up a website for your ltd company as MS will check on that.

[Dingbat]

You can try to get onto the Bizspark program.
https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
It basically gives you full access to the Microsoft software catalog for 3 years. Your limited company must be under 3 years old I think. I recommend you set up a website for your ltd company as MS will check on that.

thanks, will check it out

[b0redom]

MAPS:

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/...ip/action-pack

[Lance]

MAPS:

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/...ip/action-pack

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS

MAPS will get you all you could want, including 5 x E3 licenses for Office 365 and a load of Azure credits.