[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Roland Gesthuizen]

True, and I wonder how they would go with the battery of gold standard
"Authentic Windows" checks. I promote the idea that MS are worth what MS is
due and this includes nearly everything that MS makes. As a rule we don't
openly bag MS, dont steal or encourage stealing software, provide and
support realistic alternatives to MS.

A father called asking if he daughter really needed to buy Office,
Publisher, FrontPage etc etc. He was ticked pink to discover that we had
some free alternatives that would suit their family needs. She had been
spinning yarns including how how much and how badly she needed Vista (badly
advised boyfriend), a new video card (for secondlife we discovered) and the
computer moved from the family room to a bedroom (hmmmm) ..

Say has anybody noticed that the licence agreement with Vista means that
only the premium versions (~$700) can be use with virtual machines such as
parallel, VMWare and virtual PC? Very sad to read and looks suspictiously
like a marketing than a security ploy.

Regards Roland

On 06/03/07, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Sounds like a hoax only because Microsoft's track record of doing
> something so sensible is not great.
>
> 95% of Uni students use an illegal copy of Office. Most of the $75 would
> be pure profit for the company.
>
> Mark Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Michael Walker
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> Subject: RE: [Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students
>
> >>> Charles Clarke<cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> 03/06/07 08:55am >>>
> >Smells very like a scam to me.  Has anyone verified this... apart from
> the claims on the site quoted?
> >Cheers
> >Charlie
>
> It was in yesterday's Age with quotes from Microsoft representatives.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/home-office/uni-students-get-office-2007-f
> or-75/2007/03/05/1172943327075.html
>
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