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- UtopiaInTheSky, on 11/08/2007, -12/+369Too late, I already stole it.
- zweben, on 10/10/2007, -22/+329Somehow I don't think the ultimate steal is one that involves paying Microsoft $60.
- hellyes, on 10/10/2007, -17/+213I'm a college student that took advantage of the real ultimate steal as soon as Office 2007 hit the torrent sites.
- john2kx, on 10/10/2007, -13/+165thanks for the offer, MS, but I stole it a while ago. :D
- jbus, on 10/10/2007, -23/+137They've been doing this with students for a long time. It's aimed at maintaining their monopoly... Cut the price on extremely over-priced software to make students feel like they are getting a tremendous deal. After all, they wouldn't want these impressionable students figuring out that they can get through school and do business just fine without ever touching a Microsoft product.
- TGMD, on 10/16/2007, -31/+113$60 bucks for the best version of office?
Awesome. - MeltingIce, on 10/10/2007, -3/+82We get it for free at my college, legally too
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+78I run Linux and use OpenOffice for everything but still...Wow. Microsoft does something completely awesome and everyone on Digg still bashes them.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+67Umm, then what the hell is the Home and Student edition for?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54I never have understood this analogy because beer is never free.
- GreyICE, on 10/10/2007, -9/+48Sorry, I can't live without Excel or Powerpoint.
Yes, I know there are OS versions. They don't do what they need them too (especially the OS spreadsheet programs). - lacronicus, on 10/10/2007, -7/+45Why the hate? Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing for MS to do, and a good thing for students to take advantage of. As a student myself, the price of MS office 07 is more than worth the money over open office in stability alone, not to mention the massive UI improvement. 07 is a dream to use, especially compared to open office. Granted, OO is free, but I still wouldn't use it if I had a 100 page paper due the next day. Piracy aside, which I don't particularly support if I can afford not to (this applies to things like maya and premiere), this is the best offer you can get.
- jprez, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42good job misrosoft. yea i said it
- renegadeafk, on 10/10/2007, -7/+42Office 07 completely destroys openoffice
- Scatropolis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+37If you're not willing to pay $60 for Ultimate Office you're not going to pay $10, don't kid yourself.
- dsmx, on 10/10/2007, -14/+45Or you could just download open office and not pay anything...
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31Office 97???
- scoot2006, on 10/10/2007, -5/+35free download through my school.. M$ partnership ftw
- kelway, on 10/10/2007, -6/+36With respect, I don' t think any spreadsheet program kicks Excel's butt.
- CosmicJustice, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32You can't "get it for free" you can steal it. Why don't you go steal a car? What kind of schmuck pays for a car when the parking lots are full of them?
- asforme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Through something called Microsoft License Agreement (e-Academy), I can get Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Suite for $14.40, and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade for 18.95. I thought most schools already had deals like this, maybe I'm just lucky.
- Kappa00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Utopian literally stole it from CompUSA
- windohs, on 10/10/2007, -13/+41$0 For The Best OpenOffice ever? (2.3.0 released today) Awesome!
- reed311, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29That's poor reasoning. You can get a brand new Mercedes for "free" if you wanted to steal one. Theft does not equal free.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32WTF is this? Who ever the ***** Ina Fried is who wrote the blog is a complete *****.
How the hell do you get "MS says you can 'steal' Office" (steal only can mean 1 thing in that statement) from something where the only time steal is mentioned is in the title, "The Ultimate Steal", which uses steal in completely different meaning.
And why the hell does it have 383 diggs? Buried as inaccurate. - CosmicJustice, on 10/10/2007, -19/+44Yeah, why you should you have to pay for something that a lot of people a lot smarter than you work long hours to produce. It's not fair that you they make money while you have no marketable skills.
- Pake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23Ummm.... maybe it's because you have been using OO for years....
- NeutralX2, on 10/10/2007, -8/+28Paying $680 for office is the ultimate steal.
- chicoer2001, on 10/10/2007, -36/+56$60 bucks is pricey for something you can get for free. Maybe $10 would be ok, but $60. Hell No
- lacronicus, on 10/10/2007, -25/+43honestly, I will never touch open office for anything that closely resembles a school paper, simply because it is more buggy than most any other suite ive used. 60 bucks for one of the best, most reliable suites in the world IS in fact a steal.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17So you're going to go to his house, make copies of said items, then distribute the copies to the world? What a great idea! Mind seeding the car for a little bit? I'm stuck at 98%.
- fordistumley, on 10/23/2007, -7/+24"You're"
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -9/+26That would work if OOo actually *was* equally good. Unfortunately, it isn't, so it doesn't.
- estvir, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17It's depressing how retarded and morally pathetic your comment is and that people are actually digging you up.
- Julz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17theres still a difference between free and $60..... but $60 is really cheap to own a copy of office 2007..... tempting....
- ohnnyj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Non college students perhaps.
- patientXero, on 10/10/2007, -7/+21You are so right about this being a backhanded attempt at gaining market share. However you slice it though, $60 is a good price for Office. You get the (non-pirated) software and all the support that comes with it. Plus, as a long-time Open Office user, MS Office is smoother and easier to use with more advanced features and shiny buttons than most other office suites that are legally available to those of us on a college student budget. I have never had a problem with using OO, I'm just saying that MSO feels more user-friendly and includes better features.
- danconia, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19Yeah $60 might seem cheap but it ain't as cheap as $0. Nice try MS but college students know how to do math =P
- allyant, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Pff n00b using Bitcomet leach *****.
- grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Dude, they really screwed mail merge in that version. 2007 at least has ribbon which puts the menu options where a person with a brain should have put them in the first place. It takes a while to get used to, but you will eventually come to the realisation that managing page margins through a File menu is weird.
- Extracheese, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I don't get why everyone feels so happy about stealing it. It is true office is usually too expensive but don't tell me you can't find an old copy or just get Open Office? Just because it's software doesn't mean it is any less wrong than shoplifting something of equal value. Even if you did steal it, why are you guys trying to be proud of it? Personally, I'm glad that i'll be able to have the latest edition MS Office for the price of a console game. Dealing with Openoffice at home and MSoffice at school is a little irritating.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Get through school without it, yes. Do business, I'm not so sure. That's the trouble with monopolies.
- mexicanman07, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12***** norton
- JeffD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13notepad > all
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11A lot of colleges have licenses for students and staff. Just need to ask.
- cynicist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11How is it buggy?
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I miss the days of being a CS major when Microsoft just gave us all their software for free.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Home and Student edition is for students with parents who don't know better.
- jdm0778, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10at my school (University of Louisville) the engineering students pay a tech fee of $25 a semester and get Vista Ultimate, Office 07 and a lot of other things, i like it, even though i use Open Office
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