Yes, I know software is ethereal and and can have all sorts of different prices or values that make no sense.
I once worked Mac Warehouse /Micro warehouse in sales and product training.
(I was a bloody telemarketing and then cheerleader trying to get the sales people off the phones and into the training sessions and help the vendors by Pizza.
I also begged for them to bring squeaky toys, called stress relievers, and begged them to give us some product for our product library. No decision making job)
Anyway, I had free NFR copies of Adobe Photoshop, office, illustrator, Mech WarierâŚ
Any and all products that you were drooling over now I had for free, legally mine but the damn company did not pay us enough to get a computer to use it but thatâs another storyâŚ)
Oh yes, not for resale copies are gifts that are not eligible for upgradesâŚ
AnywayâŚ
Is this freaking offer for real? If it is Iâm buying. But I really need to know how they can afford to do this?
Really get my own license for microsoft? Or is just a multi-licensed scheme which can get revoked
Iâve been out of the software business for years and again I was just a plebe who scored free stuffâŚ
It helpâŚ
For the stuff my computer could run, it helped me be a better salespersonâŚ
Mod edit: removed link to potentially not legit Microsoft products store.
Donât know if that specific offer is legit, but I paid about $99 for Office on my MacBook 3 years ago bought here in Taiwan. Worked so far (knock on wood) and has updated itself regularly. Bought it (added it) at the department store in KHH where I bought the MacBook.
When you service your account, reinstall or move files, do you use the Microsoft account.
I bought the physical version from SUnFa in 2016. They gave me a USB stick.
I was since then able to reinstall my program via download through the Microsoft site without using the USB stick
Please check your about and privileges to tell me if you actually own the license in Microsoftâs.
I donât have $100 to throw away on a scam so I just would like to know the confidence of this product.
Some local friends tell me it may not be a real deal. But theyâre local and I live in the country.
I actually bought the official MS Office âboxâ, which has the disk that then gets downloaded onto MacBook. So, I donât really know about that specific firm offering MS Office.
You definitely got it for a good price but for a third party seller.
Can you take a quick look at my link and see if you think itâs a legitimate deal?
I looked into the âAbout Usâ link. Itâs from the U.S.
Why canât you buy MS office from some physical store? I think itâs like Apple products.
The software price is the same no matter which country (just in different currency amounts based on F/X exchange).
What does that mean? The use of Office 365 is the thing youâre paying for by subscribing, and youâre then paying a comparable fee every year rather than just once.
I think no. This seems not a 100% legit way to buy. Also the company & website are fishy (anonymous registration, no contact except email, no details, âŚ).
Just read the about: âis a high-touch managed IT services and solutions provider headquartered in the suburbs of United Statesâ
All that âMicrosoft Partnerâ, âNorton Shopping Guaranteeâ and so on likely only gives an air of legitimacy - but in reality doesnât mean much.
Yes, thatâs how it seems to work. Buying volume licenses and reselling them in a way that MS doesnât approve of. And sometimes seems to be revoked. See the MS discussion/help forums.
Please note that the above only reflects my understanding of Microsoftâs position.
Youâre paying about the same per month for 1tb of icloud, so itâs not a bad deal. Also you get the most up to date version as long as you subscribe.
Itâs also pretty similar to the prices of boxed versions on Shopee, so doesnât look to be a good deal if thatâs the case.
If they are just reselling volume licences, those are maybe a sixth of the price on Shopee, so again not a good deal, whether the site is genuine or not.
I prefer Google Drive for cloud storage anyway, and didnât even use Onedrive when I had free access to it bundled in with my laptop. (I might still have it actually - not sure, donât want it even for free.) I forget what my issues with it were, and maybe theyâve improved by now.
Wow, big deal. Itâs Word and Excel, not nuclear power plant management software. Looks like Microsoft has found another sucker to switch to the subscription model though.
On a serious note, you complain here quite frequently about money issues - Iâm a bit surprised you think that paying NT$200 every month for this is a good deal, compared with other cheaper options (both the free alternatives as mentioned above, and less legal/more gray-area options like the volume license sellers), or just a one-off fee. Any of those seem an easy way to save a bit of money each month.
If youâre writing for a living, nothing beats Word. Libre office word processor is inferior to Word 2000. I bought Office 19. No regrets, itâs a pleasure to use.
edit, i didnât buy office 365, i got Office 19. Big difference.
Those are both debatable. I also work in a field where Word is the only option (because itâs what >95% of authors and publishers are using, with the remainder being LaTeX), but a lot of that preference is probably just familiarity.
And even the latest versions of Word have a habit of ballsing up more complicated files, especially with respect to text styles and layout. Itâs definitely improved somewhat since the early 2000s, but there are still a lot of times when using it isnât much of a pleasure.