Need MS Office 2010 for school, any deals available??

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I'm taking some classes that require 2010 and not the 2007 that I currently have. Is there anywhere that is offering deals with or without a student email address? I did a brief search but came up with nothing. If you find something post a link to share the wealth! Thanks, Chris
 
If you are attending a university, or community college; try their book store. Or try microsoft.com, and search for student software. Looks like they have office 2010 as low as $79. I work for a public school system, and we have/had a deal for like $50, I think.
 
check with your school, some schools even give free licenses for Office 2010 Prof and Win 7 Prof for students
 
check out Academic Superstore. You can pick up Office Pro for less than $100.

ETA: they have some great deals for other things too. I ordered some things about 6 years ago, I hope they're still good.
 
You could run the trial of office 2010 pro in vmware player. :D That is what I did last semester. But, you should be able to get a copy from your school cheaper.
 
Seems like schools would get smart and use open office instead.
 
That would be the smart thing or get rid of office class all together. Who doesn't know how to use it?
 
Try dreamspark.com If you have a valid student ID you can get microsoft software cheap or free, though I don't see office at this moment. Dreamspark is a microsoft program.

https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx

Other than that, most schools have a license agreement with microsoft so that you can buy their products at a reduced rate. Check with your school office.

Alternatively Star Office (open office) works really good for free as an open source alternative.
 
Seems like schools would get smart and use open office instead.

This does not make any sense and is the farthest thing from smart. The point of school is to prepare you for the real world and job market. What percentage of companies use open office? It is just a waste of time to teach on open office. Here I taught you how to use an office app you have almost no chance of seeing in the wild GLHF. Schools should teach on what people will actually use and for the time being that is M$ office.

You can get the ultimate steal student version of office for $100 sometimes it drops to $80. I bought this and it was worth it. However if you never plan to use M$ access another way to go is to find a couple people whom you trust to split office with and get the home and student 3 pack which can be had for around $115. That is about $40 per person not bad and if you do decide to get office make good use of one note it is great for college. That program is worth $100 alone in the time it saves you when taking and reviewing notes.
 
This does not make any sense and is the farthest thing from smart. The point of school is to prepare you for the real world and job market. What percentage of companies use open office? It is just a waste of time to teach on open office. Here I taught you how to use an office app you have almost no chance of seeing in the wild GLHF. Schools should teach on what people will actually use and for the time being that is M$ office.

You can get the ultimate steal student version of office for $100 sometimes it drops to $80. I bought this and it was worth it. However if you never plan to use M$ access another way to go is to find a couple people whom you trust to split office with and get the home and student 3 pack which can be had for around $115. That is about $40 per person not bad and if you do decide to get office make good use of one note it is great for college. That program is worth $100 alone in the time it saves you when taking and reviewing notes.
Considering most people use a tiny fraction of the ins and outs of office software, If you couldn't pick up MS office after learning Open Office, I wouldn't want to hire you.

In fact, the only reason I would consider MS Office is concerns over file compatibility and ease of sharing files with business partners. Otherwise I'm flushing money away.

In further fact, I can get Office at home through work for $10. The license expires if I ever quit / get fired. Since I have a laptop for work, I would only use the home copy for personal use. So far, I'm still using Openoffice. I'm really tired of paying over and over again for the same adequate functionality I've had since Windows / Office 95. In fact, I'm paying them to move around and hide the same commands I used to have. Just like Office I begrudge having to update Windows when the only thing since Windows 95 I've ever benefited from was the move to 64-bit. Anything else, I'm paying for functionality a small group of people use/care about that doesn't affect me. I'm basically subsidizing MS 'dumpware' so they can keep down potential competition. I mean, how many times do I need to pay for Notepad? So I won't even give MS $10, if I don't have to.
 
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It is not the goal of a university to test if students are capable moving from open office to microsoft office so employers know if they want to hire you or not. Once you are accepted in the school it is their goal to make you as successful as possible.

Point 2 is a good reason for paying a small price to save alot of time for people whom are expensive to hire.

Second since when did Schools give a shit about how much it costs you to go there. If they ever did they would stop making you buy new math books for which there has been no change in what humans know for hundreds of years. In fact they would not make you buy most books at all.

You may not understand the differences between each update in software but the people who matter do, that is why M$ has stayed in the game as long as they have. With each update comes new features and value. Some of those things are only known to the people who make complicated vbs scripts for spread sheets and documents but those people are the ones who make all the employees work faster and better. If you want to go back to windows 95 since you see no value in any update lets talk about no recovery, no automatic updates, no indexed search, no aero snap, no TRIM, no hybrid hardware such as graphics, how about paying for internet browsers, burning CDs, DVDs and how many other things that were added for free through the years. That list could go on for a long time.
 
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I'm not sure how familiar you are with Office 2007 and Office 2010, but they both support the same file types. Your teachers using Office 2010 will be able to open your Office 2007 documents without an issue. The reverse is no different.

I worked technical support for a huge online education company for a couple years up until July, and while we had updated the system requirements to Office 2010, Office 2007 was still fully supported.

Yes, there are some differences, but unless you're taking some class that is specific to mastering Office 2010 applications, they won't be important.

What version of Office do they say you need? Home & Student retails for $129 but can often be found for around $100 on sale. This includes the core Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. I believe it includes a couple other programs as well but nothing like Access or Publisher.

Also check out www.journeyed.com
 
Microsoft's Ultimate Steal program is decent, the full Office 2010 suit for 90 bucks is not unreasonable (though I bought 2007 for 50 bucks, its more expensive now unfortunately)
 
Check with your school to see if they can give it to you. My wife got a copy of Office 2003 free from her school several years ago.
 
is it even worth it to jump from 2007 to 2010. Using it at school, i couldn't really tell a difference between the two besides the better looking gui.
 
Might try buying from your schools tech department/book store. I just got office 2010 pro plus for 69.99 from my schools online tech store.
 
Seems like schools would get smart and use open office instead.

Bad idea. At my school we are required to do some CS assignments on the linux computers they have and there is always a part where you have to make graphs for assignment analysis. Making graphs blows giant D in open office, you have to format all the data right while in MS office you can select data that is all over the place. There are lots of other crappy things that happen with open office. Honestly the only reason to choose open office over MS office is if you are poor. MS office does everything better, easier, and faster.
 
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