[morgan]

I didn't realise this till the other day but often if your company is a corporate user of Microsoft Office you as an employee can purchase Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows for $28-. You have to pay extra for the CD as they just give you access to an image you can download (and burn yourself).

We just changed over to word 2007 at work thus requiring me to upgrade on my Mac to Office 2008 so I can work at home. This was a considerable saving.

[Seakip]

Does this apply to schools?

[gehenna]

Can you link to some official documentation on this please? I'm interested in doing this if it pans out...

[Al Aero]

little bit OT but does Adobe offer the same deal?

[Dux]

It's a deal MS does to very large corporations - so if you work at Dell, Cisco, HP, VMware, etc. etc. they offer this to the employees.

I haven't heard of anything similar for Adobe. They seem to loathe selling their software at any reasonable price.

[gehenna]

I'm a Microsoft Partner, so is this something I can take advantage of?

[mitty]

My employer does this. MS provide your employer with a special code and URL that you use to gain access to the discount, it's the same for both Windows and Mac versions of Office. If your employer has the same deal, speak to whomever deals with MS in your company and they should be aware of it and be able to provide you with the details. It not just something you can go to the MS website and do by yourself, unfortunately.

[timdotexe]

If your a teacher you can get cheap Microsoft and Adobe software here:

Simply International Group

Office and Windows products $39 + $11 post

Adobe CS Collection (9 DVDs Pc, 7 DVDs Mac) $82.50 + $11 post

[mitty]

^Hm, that only appears to apply to NSW Teachers.

[tcn33]

The link is publicly available - it's Microsoft Home Use Program. But you need a program code to get past that landing screen and place an order, which you can only get from your IT department or whoever else administers the HUP.

It's come down in price, too - used to be $37.20 last year.

[morgan]

My firm has an "employee benefits" page on the intranet that has the details. Its the same place they put the special deals for Car hire, banking, Dell, Apple, Gyms etc.

I think your employer would have to be pretty large, mine has 140,000 employees worldwide.

[gehenna]

Well judging from the requirements on the MS website you just need to be a volume or open licensee, which many organisations are regardless of their size. I've started the ball rolling and am looking into things, will update the thread with any progress I have.

[Dux]

FYI I'm planning to order my $28 copy of MS Office for Mac soon

My mate is getting Office 2007 Enterprise for $28 too, it's such a great deal.

[Al Aero]

Originally Posted by Dux

FYI I'm planning to order my $28 copy of MS Office for Mac soon

My mate is getting Office 2007 Enterprise for $28 too, it's such a great deal.

can you hook it up for us?

[Dux]

Originally Posted by Al Aero

can you hook it up for us?

Nope.

Only available to employees, 1 purchase per year.