[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Cameron Bell]

Yes I did read about the Vista Licensing and Virtual machines. We were/
are thinking of recommending Macs when teachers need to rollover, to run
both OS's.  Pretty sure DET will need to get the Enterprise version
anyway so from a school point of view it wouldn't be a problem. Can
still run boot camp, but it would be nice to be able to run parallels.
Cameron

Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
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>     >>> Charles Clarke< cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au
>     <mailto: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
>     <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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