The cost of school licences is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of lifetime subscription. Microsoft may be many things, but they aren't stupid..!
Phil On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Fearghas McKay <fm-li...@st-kilda.org>wrote: > > On 10 Feb 2009, at 09:23, Alun Rowe wrote: > > >> "Microsoft offers the OS and Office at extremely competitive prices to >> schools. I have heard it quoted as being around £5 per license for Office." >> >> It is cheaper but not that cheap... >> > > At Glasgow University it used to be nearly that cheap - because there was a > site wide licence students could get a set of discs for ~£10. Which > probably only just about covered the costs of the admin and the floppies. > > The current retail price for a 3 user Home/School use only copy is £99, inc > VAT, so £33 a user. > > > f > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com
