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    Is this legitimate?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Aaron95, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. Aaron95

    Aaron95 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, it sounds too good to be true. 80% off for Office 2010 Professional on a site I have never heard of sounds pretty risky to me.

    If you are a student, go buy Office 2010 on a college campus. You can probably get it at the same price; if not cheaper.

    You can also buy the Academic version for $149.99 at Microcenter if you can provide the right credientials to prove that you are a student, teacher, professor, etc.
     
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    Wow, thats even better than me, $10? I'll be getting Professional Plus for $70 from my college. I've had Enterprise 2007 now for 3 years and love it, even if the only thing I used beyond the home & students programs were publisher and access a couple times. I can't wait to try out sharepoint and my windows phone. I bet there is more to it than I think.
     
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    Same here! For big corporate clients this seems the norm... like an alternative to the now-defunct VLK
     
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  5. V_Chip

    V_Chip Be about it.

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    I got mine for $450
     
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    @D3vo I'm scared to download it without knowing what it is...is that like a hacked version of Office or something?
     
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    V_Chip Be about it.

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    OK, well it's nice to know I have a backup to my backup's backup's backup plan. Plan goes as follows: download Office 2010 Home and Student Trial, then when that expires download the Professional trial, then when that expires download the Ultimate (or whatever it's called) trial, and so on and so forth. Considering I plan on buying Office before my ~8 months of trials run out, I should be okay ;).
    Thanks for the suggesiton, though.
     
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    V_Chip Be about it.

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    Sounds like a plan. Just like how you can extend the Windows 7 trial twice for up to 120 days of free use without a valid license.

    I use LibreOffice on my Ubuntu partition.
     
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    Aaron95 you said it. It is probably a hacked version. I know people who use these kinds of files and eventually some update will catch it and it will no longer work. You will have wasted your money on it. Sometimes they also write little gifts into those programs. One of my co workers had to set his computer back to factory condition and start over loading all his software because of software like this.
     
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