[hermaphrodite]

I've checked all the usual culprits. i.e amazon, micro direct, pricerunner, kelkoo. does anyone have any better suggetsions.

I need to install the microsoft software. (i need word, excel, powerpoint, access etc).

btw which one would you recommend; the home package or the student package?

thanks

[omicronlyrae]

You mean Office?

Vista is an operating system, like XP. Word, etc are part of Office.

[hermaphrodite]

yep. it was 3 in the morning when i posted!!

[Unicorn66]

(Original post by hermaphrodite)
I've checked all the usual culprits. i.e amazon, micro direct, pricerunner, kelkoo. does anyone have any better suggetsions.

I need to install the microsoft software. (i need word, excel, powerpoint, access etc).

btw which one would you recommend; the home package or the student package?

thanks

I'll recommend Home Basic and please go have a look at eBuyer too.

Cheers.

[La Trampa]

Ultimate Steal deal run by Microsoft. When you download the software, you have the choice i think of getting a back up cd,so get it. but if you don't,you can simply burn the trial download on to a cd and keep it.

[visesh]

(Original post by Unicorn66)
I'll recommend Home Basic and please go have a look at eBuyer too.

Cheers.

Office Home Basic?

OP, have you tried OpenOffice.org? Their office suite is pretty good (and free!) and has most of Office's features. It's also cross compatible.

[SunburnedCactus]

argh, beaten by the post 2 up!

[La Trampa]

hehe i got the perpetual license it can be annoying sometimes and slightly different at first, but it's pretty cool

oh you need to have an .ac.uk email address to be able to get it. they want to make sure it's only uni students to get it.

[Tom]

Ditto to visesh. OO does everything MS office does for day-to-day tasks, and it's free Comes with an (almost identical) equivalent of word, ppt, excel, and a (very) crappy drawing program too.

[omicronlyrae]

but the ultimate steal gets you every single component of office for £40, and i'd rather pay £40 for the added bonus of having Office.
I've used OO and pretty much every version of office, and OO is similar to old versions and not nearly as good as 2007.

Not that it bothers me, anyway. because of where i work i got Office 2007 Enterprise for a fiver

[hermaphrodite]

(Original post by olileauk)
but the ultimate steal gets you every single component of office for £40, and i'd rather pay £40 for the added bonus of having Office.
I've used OO and pretty much every version of office, and OO is similar to old versions and not nearly as good as 2007.

Not that it bothers me, anyway. because of where i work i got Office 2007 Enterprise for a fiver

Sorry. i didn't understand the first bit care to clarify

and what's OO

[JayEm]

He means you get all the bits that make up MS Office like Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc.

http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/

OO is OpenOffice which is a free equivalent.

[alex-hs]

(Original post by hermaphrodite)
Sorry. i didn't understand the first bit care to clarify

and what's OO

The Ultimate Steal is a promotion currently being run my microsoft whereby anyone with an email address ending in .ac.uk (ie a uni student) can get Office 2007 for £12.95 for one year, or £38.95 for a permanent licence. You can view this at http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/

OO is referring to OpenOffice. This is an open source (and more importantly for you, free) clone of Microsoft Office. It pretty much does everything that MS Office 2003 (and previous versions) did. You can download it from http://www.openoffice.org/

[hermaphrodite]

is the £40 item the same as this item:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123061

edit: no it's not. which is the BETTER product. the one i put there from e buyer or the one from ultimate steal?

[alex-hs]

no, that's 'Office Home & Student', presumably a vastly cut down version - the £40 offer is Office Ultimate (more features)

[slugonamission]

The one from The Ultimate Steal is better, it's the ultimate edition (worth about £600 I think), containing Access, Excel, Groove, Infopath, Onenote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Publisher and Word.

The one you linked only contains Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote. Also, Microsoft have craftily got around the OEM system by only supplying a license key with the OEM Office products, which will only unlock a preinstalled version of Office (and won't even unlock the 60-day downloadable version), so unless your computer came with a demo of Office pre-installed, you need to get it from The Ultimate Steal, or a retail version.

[hermaphrodite]

when you order the ultimate steal how long does it take for them to despatch it to you?

[Angel Interceptor]

You can just download the software off the website, ie. there's no waiting involved, bar the time your download takes. However, if you have a slow internet connection, then it would be worth ordering a physical copy, however I can't tell you how long this would take to arrive.

[visesh]

It took them about 2-3 days to send it to me.

[hermaphrodite]

OK. Thanks for your help everybody.

Another question. I wantto buy the Dummies Series for the 2007, for Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint (and possibly Outlook).

Does anyone which is the cheapest online offer available. I imagine there are cheaper offers online apart from Amazon?