primesuspect
12 Sep 2007, 3:23pm
Trying to discourage piracy (and mayhaps encourage the adoption of skills that will follow students to their workplace after graduation), Microsoft has let it be known that the Ultimate edition of Microsoft Office 2007 will be available at a student price of $59.95 in what they are calling "The Ultimate Steal".
Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's World Wide Education division, comments on the timing of the news:
<blockquote>"In terms of the timing of The Ultimate Steal promotion, I think what really kicked it off was the proliferation of buying behavior on the Web of large file size assets such as movies, large music files, and other software tools that require a significant download. Generally speaking, good broadband coverage exists in the countries that we're launching the promotion in so we think it makes a huge amount of sense for us to offer Office via download as well for students."</blockquote>
And mayhaps the proliferation of downloading huge pirated rarballs of Office 2007, too.
Ah, I jest. At any rate, $60 is really not a bad price to buy an Ultimate version of Office 2007. See The Ultimate Steal Website (http://www.theultimatesteal.com/) for more info.
Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's World Wide Education division, comments on the timing of the news:
<blockquote>"In terms of the timing of The Ultimate Steal promotion, I think what really kicked it off was the proliferation of buying behavior on the Web of large file size assets such as movies, large music files, and other software tools that require a significant download. Generally speaking, good broadband coverage exists in the countries that we're launching the promotion in so we think it makes a huge amount of sense for us to offer Office via download as well for students."</blockquote>
And mayhaps the proliferation of downloading huge pirated rarballs of Office 2007, too.
Ah, I jest. At any rate, $60 is really not a bad price to buy an Ultimate version of Office 2007. See The Ultimate Steal Website (http://www.theultimatesteal.com/) for more info.