From: "M Henri Day
2008/5/13 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Oh my...
<
http://www.theultimatesteal.com/store/msshus/ContentTheme/pbPage.microsoft_office_ultimate
>
<quote>
Hey College Students Seize the deal! Get Microsoft(R) Office Ultimate
2007
for just $59.95. It's a total steal: save time and money with this
premium offer. Office Ultimate 2007's brand new features and fresh look
will help you organize and get all your work done in the blink of an eye.
The Ultimate Steal is finally here and available at a special discount
price for college students, so grab it now!
</quote>
But wait... there's more!
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx
<quote>
.
.
.
The following conditions serve to define student eligibility for the
Promotion:
1. Individual must possess a valid e-mail address at a U.S. educational
institution which contains the domain suffix .edu; AND
2. Individual must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and
must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to
provide proof of enrollment upon request.
Microsoft or an appointed vendor may contact you to verify that you are
a current student. If documentation is not provided indicating that you
are a current student, you will be liable to reimburse Microsoft for the
full retail cost of the software ($679).
Program Description:
Eligible students may have free access to Microsoft(R) Office Ultimate
2007 Trial for a limited amount of time. Each trial provides (1) 25
application launches (each launch of an individual Office Ultimate
application is counted as one launch) before the software goes into
reduced functionality mode (at which time your software behaves
similarly to a viewer, you cannot save modifications to documents or
create any new documents, and additional functionality might be
reduced); and (2) the opportunity to purchase the following perpetual
license for the Microsoft(R) Office Ultimate 2007 software:
.
.
.
</quote>
Other:
<
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/how-to-get-microsoft-office-at-91-percent-off/index.html
>
but this is interesting:
<quote>
UPDATE: As Jude Biersdorfer pointed out, Microsoft says you have to
carry at least a half-credit course load to get the deal. Microsoft's
site says you have to pay the full price if they find out you are not.
</quote>
That doesn't seem to be mentioned in the
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ultimatesteal.mspx
link & besides, would MS then take on further big brother duties of not
only monitoring your OS, but also your office suite *and* your
grades/student status?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101750061033.aspx
I reckon that we'll start getting all sorts of queries from .edu folks
after their free trial runs out. It also appears that MS are concerned
about the upcoming OOo 3.0; nail down the students, staff et al at a 91%
discount...
It would be nice to think that OOo and other similar open-source office
suites now finally have Microsoft running scared and forced to offer these
huge discounts in order to lock customers in, but there is nothing new in
any of this ; rather it is MS SOP. Aside from technical lock-ins to MS
Office - I ran into one the other day after installing OOo 2.4 for a
retiree
who saw no reason to invest a great deal of money which she could use to
better purpose to purchase a product key in order to activate a version of
MS Office 2007 which was, unbeknown to her, pre-installed on her new Vista
machine - MS uses the same methods to promote its ubiquitous OSs ; for an
account of how this is done, see the aptly titled article «Windows is
Free»
(http://tinyurl.com/223llt) on TLUG's website. In my opinion, the worst
consequences for OOo and other competitors of these marketing tactics is
that they are forced to chase non-existant «standards» - to which, as has
been pointed out many times on this list, latest in connexion with the
OOXML
debacle, not even Microsoft itself adheres - in order to have a chance to
find users. In a reasonable world, it should suffice for OOo 3.0 to save
documents in odt eller rtf format, etc, but in the real world, alas, that
is
not the case....
Henri
Well, how about this one.
I received a spam from MS the other week advertising their suite.
I was offered the Trial using a button stating "Buy Now". The spam's
button forwarding address was listed to go to MS's site, not a spamer's
site. Now you have to buy their Trials????
Now MS is spamming to get their product more advertisement.
How low can they get.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
