Where is the cheapest and best place to get Microsoft Office?
I am needing Microsoft Office that has Word, Excel, Power Point, etc. all included. I found on Microsoft.com that it is $149. Surely there has to be a cheaper deal that that.
Also I have seen there is a Microsoft Office 365. It is only like $35.00 and comes with more than just the main 3 programs. I am not sure which to purchase and why a person would purchase one over the other. Trying to make the best purchase. |
Office online is free, you just have to create a Microsoft account. It's the web versions of the apps, but mostly fully functional.
If you want the physical apps, you have to go with O365, which is $99/year. |
Do you know anyone who is a student or teacher and has a school email address?
Check here to see if their school qualifies for free Office. There's also a link there, "Not Eligible? See More Options" that will get you office 365 Personal (1 user) for $69.99/year. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/students |
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Google docs or libreOffice If your running Linux.
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That's why I'm still using an older version of Office on my home PCs. I think I paid like $70 for a three seat license, from Microsoft. |
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I use Apple's suite (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) and I never have any issues. Also don't have to pay MS for their bullshit. |
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I actually prefer the Apple suite, it's more user friendly. Imagine that. :D |
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Who doesn’t love VLOOKUP? What kind of heathen are you? Like Vail, my world runs through excel and it’s worth the money. If I were in a different industry it would probably be google docs. |
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Just gotta sling some shit. ROFL We’re running dork smack up in here. :LOL: |
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$9.95 a month for Office 365
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After MS Office moved to a subscription service, I finally made the switch to OpenOffice.
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There isn't a snowballs chance in hell your using Google's office suite for complex Excel tasks or creating a PPT for a presentation. Open Office isn't much better. :shake: |
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For government contracts, there's all kinds of compliance issues so special negotiations are required with Google to make sure instances stay on-shore, aren't accessible by foreign nationals, and comply with certain government security requirements like FISMA, GARM, and ITAR. Like I said, I know a lot of Fortune 100 companies are switching, including mine. |
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The cost differential is just huge. A Chromebook you could literally throw away and replace if it broke. Windows PC's are 10x more costly to support, secure, and admin. |
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You know how it is with publicly-traded companies. |
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For a large enterprise, we're literally talking 10's of millions of dollars in savings when you figure in hardware, licensing, maintenance, security, and support. It's significant enough to shake up the market significantly. That being said, I work on fed gov a lot and they still use MS. Money is no object for them. ;) |
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I'd much rather use the free Microsoft stuff than the other options, personally. |
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Believe it or not, one of the big drivers right now is collaboration. Sharepoint + Office is a freaking disaster. Overwrites, lockouts, version control, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Google Docs just plain work. You can have 3 or 4 people editing the same doc in real time and no issues. |
Oh and speaking of collaboration, MS Teams is ****ing awful.
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There is lag and latency on Google Docs unless your entire team is on a T-4 superspeed pipeline |
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There are enterprises out there with 40K home office workers using Google docs because Sharepoint simply doesn't work with that kind of setup. |
And for the record, I personally HATE Google. I'm an Apple guy myself.
But professionally, I've seen what works and what doesn't. Google is rapidly closing the gap and Microsoft is pricing itself right out of the marketplace. |
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We've dumped our entire file server at this point, and it's been fine. It does help that we're a small office of relatively tech savvy folks, so it's easy to train people on where to find stuff. That would be considerably more difficult with a ton of people, some of whom should be featured on those Progressive commercials. |
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So yeah, scale of the operation has a lot to do with it. In a large organization, MS has a lot of issues. It just doesn't scale well. |
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We use primarily WebEx and Bluejeans but also have experience with Teams, Zoom, GoTo, and several others. Teams hardly ever works well enough. WebEx tends to be the most reliable. We've moved several Teams installations to other platforms. |
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I bought a student license off ebay a couple weeks ago for $29. It used to be that you could get one for like $6, but O365 put the kabosh on that.
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Apple still has their own versions. I use them every day. |
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The most forward-thinking organizations are looking at Chromebooks now. It's like VDI, only without the capital infrastructure. You just buy the service from Google and away you go. |
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With us using VDI I see no reason to spend 1k-1200K for Windows PC with all the software shit you have to put it on it to admin etc when i was doing thin clients for $300-400 each. |
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There's on old saying in the infrastructure business: "Nobody ever gets fired for selecting Microsoft, IBM, or Cisco." |
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Purpose-built devices tend to be much more secure while less tightly-couple hardware and software (e.g. Windows PC's and Android devices) tend to be a lot more vulnerable. With COVID, I know of companies that have 10's of thousands of remote employees working on PC's, including my own. A lot of them have abandoned hardware tokens in favor of soft tokens on smart phones and things like that. |
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I'm pretty spoiled. My position provides me with downloads of almost all Microsoft apps on all platforms, every single Adobe app(all platforms), the entire Google suite, Unlimited storage on Google, Unlimited storage on Box.com, 50GB on MEGA, 1TB on OneDrive, 1TB Dropbox, and a personal Furk.net subscription.
Any friends here need any software, I can probably find a way to help you out... PM me.. |
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We used Teams and had very little issues and they were quickly corrected.
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The thing about thin clients is that the device itself is less of a staging area for network-based attacks. Windows machines are usually the source of 3/4 of all attacks on an internal network. |
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Returning to this, Microsoft 365 is a no brainer if you have people you want to share your subscription with. I finally decided to migrate from Dropbox. I hadn't realized that you get SIX accounts for $100/year, and those six accounts can each install it on 5 devices. Granted most people won't actually install it that many places, but in theory that's 30 installs of Office and 6TB of storage for $100.
I've shared it with my brother, parents, and grandparents who all had Dropbox subscriptions. As a group, we all just got a discount of $300 a year and got Office for free. |
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We're prepping for a Gmail / G Suite transition next weekend. 140K people moving off of MS, at least for the time being. |
Some interesting stats out today from IDC...
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/17...old-macs-2020/ It's from MacRumors so the headline is about Chrome OS outpacing MacOS but the real story here is the top line in the graph. It's obvious Google is making headway. https://images.macrumors.com/t/rIpGf...arketshare.png |
So did this guy ever get advice on where to purchase the product he asked about? It seems more like 101 reasons to not use Microsoft Office.
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Is Chrome an OS?
I mean think about it |
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I once bought a CLONED MS Office version bootleg and it worked for about 3-4 months until an update and then it was all screwed up and I went to Office 365.
Never have to buy updates or worry about the latest or greatest. |
Another interesting tangent...
Microsoft plans on releasing Microsoft Office 2021 later this year. Yep, they're going to sell standalone versions of Office again. |
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