People who work for a company with a Microsoft volume license can get a lot of the software for practically nothing. I recently ordered Office 2003 Professional for the cost of handling & p&p (£17.30). Even though I have most of it already, it's still a good deal for the bits I don't have.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/licensing_and_compliance/sa/hup/ -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Collin R Brendemuehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 December 2005 02:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT: Sure is nice > > I finally got around to a computer upgrade. > AMD Sempron x64, XP x64, 1 gig ram. > > Now a RAW to TIFF or JPG conversion is <10 seconds. > It was 5 min. on the 330MHz PIII system. > That's a 30:1 improvement. > > Oh, and the best bargain on OS is this ... > (good for developers) > Sign up as a Microsoft developer. > For $299 ($199 annual renewal) you get > multiple licenses of XP/XPx64, and Server 2003 and a bunch of > back office stuff. Visio, too. > SQL. Most of everything. > Really a good package deal. > > > > > > >
