Microsoft Office

**NickNick** · 17 February 2009, 14:59

you might be abkle to get a copy off of Ebay for not much money, but of course it may not be a legit copy. So you could fork out for a new version which can be pricey. The cheapest way I've found of getting Office and Project is by becoming a Microsfot Partner for something like £200 a year and get the Action Pack. (bearing in mind that full retail for Office plus Project is £343 (on sale) for Office and £469 for Project.)

https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/pro...k/mapscontents

You get about 20 licences for varying versions of Vista,
10 licences each for Office, Project, Visio, Sharepoint, and Outlook
and a ton of other bits and pieces including server side stuff.

And yes I know you could in theory buy the student edition for cheaper or indeed use Open Office for Free.

**b0redom** · 17 February 2009, 15:11

You should, however, note that the Action Pack licenses are for internal development use only, and you're not allowed to give/sell them on to customers.

**NickNick** · 17 February 2009, 16:33

Sorry, yes, I should have pointed that out.

**Fred Bloggs** · 17 February 2009, 18:38

If the bloke still has his legit software license number surely he can download the software from a torrent site or something and activate it using his legit license number? That would be legal?

**dinker** · 18 February 2009, 07:16

Originally posted by interested View Post

I need to get hold of MS Office 2003 for a friend/client as the stupid git has lost his original DVD

I need Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook and I need to be able to install it on 3 machines.

A) which version do I need?
B) what/where is the cheapest way to get it?

cheers

PM me.

**scotspine** · 18 February 2009, 07:26

to all: i know you're all good law-abiding citizens so please refrain from encouraging the use of illicit software on the board, if ever such a thing should x your mind[s]. ta.

**expat** · 18 February 2009, 08:47

Serious question: if your copy is legit and you have a licence key, but then you trash your copy and don't have a disk, is it not 100% legit to obtain a disk elsewhere and use your key?

**Svalbaard** · 18 February 2009, 09:32

Originally posted by expat View Post

Serious question: if your copy is legit and you have a licence key, but then you trash your copy and don't have a disk, is it not 100% legit to obtain a disk elsewhere and use your key?

Yes I believe so. The model is that you pay for the license - not the software. If you have a valid license and license key then it should not matter a jot where the software comes from.

Although I bet this is not the case in law.

**NickNick** · 18 February 2009, 11:09

Originally posted by Svalbaard View Post

Yes I believe so. The model is that you pay for the license - not the software. If you have a valid license and license key then it should not matter a jot where the software comes from.

Although I bet this is not the case in law.

This is suddenly of interest to me as The Boy started eating (for reasons best know to him) CDs & DVDs last night, chomping his way through my Vista and Office DVDs.

Microsoft Office