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Guys I’ve just finished two years of study and just realised my Microsoft Office package has been removed from my laptop. What’s the best/cheapest way to get this as a non student?
Is that legal though?Must be copies floating around in cyberspace.
Yes it is illegal.Is that legal though?
Isnt the licence you originally purchase just so you can use it without any rights to sell on, much like old versions of Photoshop etc?
Sorry. Misinterpretation there. Don't get all excited. I didn't mean hooky stuff. Just genuine copies. Such things do exist. A quick Google will show plenty genuine copies at rock bottom prices.Is that legal though?
Isnt the licence you originally purchase just so you can use it without any rights to sell on, much like old versions of Photoshop etc?
Does that also apply to other MS etc programmes? Not asking you to name names of course.Yes it is illegal.
And usually those keys are old "corporate" keys which some company paid for years back which allows unlimited amount of installs, they then get leaked to the net so they just install again and again. Some of them get blocked, but for an older out of support version of office, nobody really cares anymore tbh.
If the work you do is straightforward then OpenOffice is a good, free alternative. Although it has its own format to save files you can save files as .doc (and .xls if you do spreadsheet work) which are readable by Microsoft Office. When I worked from home I used OpenOffice for docs and spreadsheet and never had a problem reading them at work with Word or Excel.
https://www.openoffice.org/
Dave
I know thats what happened for WinXP & Win7, also Office 2010. Those were the most popular for that.Does that also apply to other MS etc programmes? Not asking you to name names of course.
You would be amazed at how many people completely forget about the 1TB of storage inc with the O365 subscription. Many don't even mention it. When you consider that, suddenly it becomes a much better value.I get a terabyte of online storeage with my Office 365 subscription and licenses for all the computers in the house, so taking that into account it's it is a pretty good deal for me. I use the storeage as one of the backs for my photos.
Office 97 was released 22 years ago almost to the day. It's hardly surprising it does not work with the latest OS.Sorry. Misinterpretation there. Don't get all excited. I didn't mean hooky stuff. Just genuine copies. Such things do exist. A quick Google will show plenty genuine copies at rock bottom prices.
There also appears to be a problem with W10. Older programmes, the stuff Bill Gates once said would only need to be bought once, are not officially compatible with W10.
Open Office looks the best bet for OP.
Open Ofice is still going, it is now on V4.1.5, Wiki says that the last version was 3.4, I think that Wiki needs an update!Don’t get OpenOffice, get LibreOffice if you go that route. AFAIK OpenOffice is discontinued (Wikipedia). Open and LibreOffice use the same Open Document format though. LibreOffice is still being developed and updated.
Don’t get OpenOffice, get LibreOffice if you go that route. AFAIK OpenOffice is discontinued (Wikipedia). Open and LibreOffice use the same Open Document format though. LibreOffice is still being developed and updated.
You’re right of course about sharing documents if they need to be edited but sending Word docs to people just to read is one of the most annoying habits of businesses/organisations — PDFs are so much better!Libreoffice is a fork of Openoffice, and probably has better development. Both can work well, but are unsuitable for use in a customer facing business because of incompatibilities in the way documents display in office (the defacto business standard). If you need an office suite for home use then it's hard to go wrong.
I was going to mention that MS Word is one of the worst at opening MS Word docs between different versions but I haven’t used it since Word 97 so I wasn’t sure it was still true.FWIW I have both Microsoft office (2013) and LO on this laptop because it's my business machine, but LO can open 20+ YO .doc and .xls files that MO refuses to touch, and is therefore very useful if I need to dig into my archive of methods and techniques that I've accumulated.
You can buy Office 2019 keys on eBay for less than a tenner.
The vendors selling the actual keys which can be entered into your ms account are quite genuine.
The vendors offering a link to download the software with an ‘embedded’ key from their own servers are dodgy.
That only applies to perpetually licenced software that 'originally .. sold at an economic price', which generally isn't true for the copies you'll find on ebay - e.g., a licence key from the MSDN scheme is only valid for the length of the subscription (though it may continue working afterwards) and is not sold to the subscriber at full price. If you bought the business version of Office for £200 you may well be entitled to sell it on, but you won't be doing this for £10 on ebay.Reselling software in Europe is legal, and the license terms attaching them to a single original license holder are not valid: https://www.itassetmanagement.net/2016/10/31/secondary-software-2016/
That only applies to perpetually licenced software that 'originally .. sold at an economic price', which generally isn't true for the copies you'll find on ebay - e.g., a licence key from the MSDN scheme is only valid for the length of the subscription (though it may continue working afterwards) and is not sold to the subscriber at full price. If you bought the business version of Office for £200 you may well be entitled to sell it on, but you won't be doing this for £10 on ebay.
It's notable, I think, that the defendants in the case you link to were actually found guilty and the appeal to the ECJ did not exonerate them - the software they were selling was not 'accompanied by an unlimited user licence', so they did not have the right to resell it. The ECJ is, quite properly, upholding the right to resell conventional retail copies, but not those provided under limited licences, such as academic copies, employee copies, re-used OEM keys, or MSDN keys. And something you buy on ebay might not even be one of these, but the output of a keygen program that outputs working but unlicensed keys.I would see it as applying to any perpetually licensed version of microsoft office. Obviously not applicable to any time-limited lecense keys, so buyer be-aware.
Guys I’ve just finished two years of study and just realised my Microsoft Office package has been removed from my laptop. What’s the best/cheapest way to get this as a non student?
I'm still using Office '97. Works fine on W7.
Must be copies of that floating around in cyberspace.
Correct. Like OS office goes eol and loses security patches.However, ancient versions of Office must have a ton of security vulnerabilities by now...
Maybe you don’t really need it? See https://www.libreoffice.org/
You could try Google's Docs, Sheets and Slides to replace, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. They are not as sophisticated as the MS products, but they offer the standard features and are available at no cost.
Chris