Reply to: MS Office Professional

[MrRobin]

If you know anyone who works for the NHS I believe they can download legit versions for £17.....

Bugger! I wished I read that a week ago. Missus works for NHS, could have saved myself a packet.

[Sausage Surprise]

If you know anyone who works for the NHS I believe they can download legit versions for £17.....

[Ardesco]

I bought mine as a download version. Can't remember the name of the place. They have loads of other stuff as well. Also got the full Dreamweaver suite.

basically download each of the cds as full images which you then just burn to disk.

Cost me about £60.

Works for me.

Why pay for warez when you can just grab them from torrent by yourself???

Seriously do you honestly think it is legit? If not why did you pay for it in the first place?

Best thing to do is ask MS if it is legit. I just by my stuff from MS resellers. You know it is legit and OEM copies aren't too bad if you CO can classify as a system builder.

[gingerjedi]

Do you remember the link, my wife has accesss to intranet

Sadly not it was a while back, it's just a link to a website so anyone that can supply a MoD post number should be able to buy.

I'll PM you if I find it.

[puterDude]

Hmmmm.

Their contact-us has no address, the phone number is bogus, and the domain is registered to some private address in Birmingham....

Good luck - all who ventue there!

Sam

[lilelvis2000]

Some of the 'training' for the exams are available as powerpoint presentations (the small business and licensing ones are) and all you do is have the relevant ppt open and do a find on the keyword in the question. The time limits are plentiful enough that you can go and make a cuppa half way through doing it if you get bored...

It is just marketing spiel. I dunno why they are bothering. Is/was there some EU guidline or something that they need to conform to?

[SteveV]

I bought Office Pro 2003 about a year ago for £17 through a link I found on the MoD intranet, no-one ever asked if I was a contractor.

Do you remember the link, my wife has accesss to intranet

[gingerjedi]

I bought Office Pro 2003 about a year ago for £17 through a link I found on the MoD intranet, no-one ever asked if I was a contractor.

[ladymuck]

Some of the 'training' for the exams are available as powerpoint presentations (the small business and licensing ones are) and all you do is have the relevant ppt open and do a find on the keyword in the question. The time limits are plentiful enough that you can go and make a cuppa half way through doing it if you get bored...

[r0bly0ns]

£199 if your VAT registered, thats what I did.

Soon though you need to take an exam to get it.

I had a look at those 'exams' the other week.

It's just a case of taking a free online course and then passing a test at the end of it.....

[daviejones]

You can download Office 2007 for free...apparently...

[dotnetter]

Of course if you are a MS Registered Partner then you can get the Action Pack which has office, windows licences, servers etc.. for about £260.

£199 if your VAT registered, thats what I did.

Soon though you need to take an exam to get it.

[NickFitz]

I installed Office 2003 SBE on one of my machines, the box said that the upgrade was valid if MS Works was on the machine, MS Works has been shipped with every computer I have ever bought.

Although in this case, MS Works had long been removed and I was upgrading from a ripped-off copy of Office 2000 It didn't cause any problems though.

That's probably because even when you uninstall MS Works it leaves loads of tench on your disk and in the registry which degrades the performance of your machine but saves MS the hassle of dealing with your support call if the later installation of an "upgrade" doesn't work because you "removed" MS Works.

As a general rule, if you "remove" some MS software but don't manually clean both the registry and assorted directories such as /Windows/system32/* then it's very unlikely that you've removed all traces of the software from your machine.

[Gonzo]

OK so without being duped, where can you buy Office 2003? How much?

Can you get an upgrade that means you can install anywhere, eg using Office 97-

I think it is worth checking out what software you need to have already to enable the upgrade version rather than the full version.

I installed Office 2003 SBE on one of my machines, the box said that the upgrade was valid if MS Works was on the machine, MS Works has been shipped with every computer I have ever bought.

Although in this case, MS Works had long been removed and I was upgrading from a ripped-off copy of Office 2000 It didn't cause any problems though.

[DaveB]

And they're history.

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