MS Office on google and many sites for £10-£25

[mattylad]

You can get more Google space (100gb) for under £2 a month, Google Drive also has word/spreadsheet facilities.
Open Office/Libre Office are both good free competitors to the MS Office offering, check them out as they may do
what you need.

 

[opps]

I have no principled objection to paying for software licences.

TO BUY, NOT RENT.

I sympathise with your sentiment, but do you believe that a firm selling a product should be obliged to provide perpetual security updates?

 

[opps]

You can get more Google space (100gb) for under £2 a month, Google Drive also has word/spreadsheet facilities.
Open Office/Libre Office are both good free competitors to the MS Office offering, check them out as they may do
what you need.

Point taken, but that is £24 PA. Yeah it is way cheaper than a £60 license for the MS personal version but you get 5 times less storage space. That said, I haven't used open office. I have used the free ThunderBird email client

 

[mattylad]

So you get 500gb with office?
Do you need that much space?

Most of the time I use google drive for office functions, and thats on the basic 15gb account.

 

[opps]

So you get 500gb with office?
Do you need that much space?

Most of the time I use google drive for office functions, and thats on the basic 15gb account.

No you get 1000gb. If you have Office 365 Home, that equates to 6x1000gb.

Annoyingly, initially they offered unlimited storage space but eventually dropped it to 1000gb per user.

Do I need 1000Gb, possibly not but the photos from my phone that are backed up to the cloud are probably more than 16gb. I am really disorganised and don't get around to deleting stuff I no longer need. Having checked, I am only using about 50Gb of space at the moment. Some of that space is occupied by items on my desktop.

 

[JohnD]

My point is that it’s being sold on large platform sites including amazon and eBay too. If you can’t trust those sites then…..

You can't trust those sites.

How did you not know?

 

[opps]

You can't trust those sites.

How did you not know?

I have seen many dodgy licenses sold on Ebay. Some organisations get licences from MS as education institutions. They will sell a one off licence for something silly like a tenner. When MS revoke those licences, the buyer is screwed and may find that they cannot remove their MS account from the system. Years ago, she what scowls at me decided to end her office subscription (shortly after she kicked me out). I found myself unable to untie my existing MS email account to a new subscription account until I begged her to unsubscribe me.

The dodgy organisations- do you really think that they will untie your account?

 

[cdbe]

There seems to be people who pay and people who don't. I've had Microsoft software since Windows 3.1 (or whatever needed 17 3.5"discs to upload) and never paid for it.

I suppose that's why I have £1,035 in the bank and bill gates has £89,999,999,965.

I do wonder why, presumably when these days they could easily shut down every unlicensed copy connected to the internet, they don't.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I do wonder why, presumably when these days they could easily shut down every unlicensed copy connected to the internet, they don't.

It gets people hooked on MS, which might eventually pay off, in people forking out to MS for the product. Just as the provide cheap/free copies of the OS, to get people on the hook.

 

[Koolpc]

Open office is really good. I never went back to MO after using it...

 

[u587162]

Sorry for the delay in responding. I meant wowcher as the site that sells MS Office software cheaper, not the other one I previously stated. See this link:

Search results for "microsoft office" | Wowcher

Save up to 80% on deals in London – From restaurants and beauty to entertainment and fitness, Wowcher has hundreds of deals in your area.

www.wowcher.co.uk

I have bought from other sites on google in the past for sub £30 and my licence continues to work.

 

[opps]

Sorry for the delay in responding. I meant wowcher as the site that sells MS Office software cheaper, not the other one I previously stated. See this link:

Search results for "microsoft office" | Wowcher

Save up to 80% on deals in London – From restaurants and beauty to entertainment and fitness, Wowcher has hundreds of deals in your area.

www.wowcher.co.uk

I have bought from other sites on google in the past for sub £30 and my licence continues to work.

Fair enough. They are selling the older versions, Office Student and Home 2021 has just been replaced by v2024. V2021 will however continue to receive updates for 2 more years (security updates for a bit longer- extended support). V2019 is in extended support until next October (no feature updates).

 

[u587162]

But is there a risk that these are not genuine licences at this low cost?

 

[morqthana]

I sympathise with your sentiment, but do you believe that a firm selling a product should be obliged to provide perpetual security updates?

No. But I do believe that they should be obliged not to write software which is so shtty that it is easily compromised.

 

[morqthana]

Years ago, she what scowls at me decided to end her office subscription (shortly after she kicked me out). I found myself unable to untie my existing MS email account to a new subscription account until I begged her to unsubscribe me.

Could have been worse - I read on ftla of some poor sod, going through a divorce. They had a multi-vehicle insurance policy which was nominally his wife's, and without telling him she cancelled the insurance on his car. First he knew was when the police pulled him over for driving without insurance. Which is an absolute offence - there is no defence. He's facing disqualification, which will mean loss of job, and loss of access to his kids as he lives too far away to be able to use public transport.