James
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Where is cheap to get this from these days?
It's to be used by a small business.
I might recommend OpenOffice but I'm not sure if it will be sufficient.
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Russ
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google docs, if you cant do it on there then your company is big enough to pay full price for Office.
imo
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Nismo
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Microsoft Action Pack.
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Whittie
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Just get it from a special shop.
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James
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Actually I think OpenOffice will suffice.
Google docs looks like a good alternative but their internet connection is a bit ropey so I wouldn't fancy relying on a cloud based solution.
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Brett
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Just get the real deal, can't be doing with the cheap ass alternatives no matter how similar.
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Whittie
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Yeah it's something you use a fair bit, so may as well get the proper one...
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John
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If you ever have to send or receive anything from the outside world, nothing but proper office cuts it.
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nathy_87
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If they are a Student i.e school/college/uni then you can get it at a huge fraction of the original price think my girlfriend got it for £40 or something stupid like that.
Edit; It was MS Office 2010 aswell, so the latest edition.
[Edited on 01-03-2012 by nathy_87]
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John
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Check if they need Outlook, so many people buy the cheap home and student one without checking.
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James
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Outlook Express or equivalent (I think it's Windows Live Mail client or something) is sufficient.
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Rickavo
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Piratebay is your friend
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Kyle T
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Have you thought about signing up to Office365?
For about £5 a month per user you can have online versions of the office suite (browser based), hosted email and some other stuff.
For about £15 a month per user you get a license for local copies of office in addition to loads of other medium sized businessy things.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/
We've got on-premise Exchange for our ~1300 users but we've got Office365 subscriptions for our US based remote offices. So far, so good.
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oceansoul
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at people saying pirate it for a business use.
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by oceansoul
at people saying pirate it for a business use.
You'll find a lot of small/SOHO businesses doing it though; certainly i've come across it a fair few times and just get the '...oh i didn't realise'
How many licenses are you after? Just asking as one of my clients just managed to grab a retail copy of the Business package that includes 3 licenses for £100, i believe it was B-stock but it all appears to be legit and works perfectly fine (ie: registers and updates), off the Pc-World website.
Although I would give LibreOffice a whirl though as it's pretty damn good, certainly a lot better than OpenOffice.
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Sam
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Link/product code Dom? Always thought the retail ones for business were single licence only.
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Munchie
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i have a .ac.uk email address if you want to purchase through that
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by Sam
Link/product code Dom? Always thought the retail ones for business were single licence only.
I'll ask the next time I see them although they definitely said it was a 3 user licence.
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Whittie
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It's up to 3 computers / users.
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by Whittie
It's up to 3 computers / users.
That the business retail package?
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Sam
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I'm pretty sure the Office packages I've seen for 3 users were only the home & student ones?
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Kyle T
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quote: Originally posted by Kyle T
Have you thought about signing up to Office365?
For about £5 a month per user you can have online versions of the office suite (browser based), hosted email and some other stuff.
For about £15 a month per user you get a license for local copies of office in addition to loads of other medium sized businessy things.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/
We've got on-premise Exchange for our ~1300 users but we've got Office365 subscriptions for our US based remote offices. So far, so good.
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by Kyle T
quote: Originally posted by Kyle T
Have you thought about signing up to Office365?
For about £5 a month per user you can have online versions of the office suite (browser based), hosted email and some other stuff.
For about £15 a month per user you get a license for local copies of office in addition to loads of other medium sized businessy things.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/office365/
We've got on-premise Exchange for our ~1300 users but we've got Office365 subscriptions for our US based remote offices. So far, so good.
Depends on the business but apart from the hosted Exchange side of it which is pretty good (although i'd personally opt for another provider like Cobweb), i don't think Office 365 is a substitute for standalone Office packages with cost and features being the main issue.
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Mad Moe
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Use Munchies ac.uk email address and you can get a 3 user version of Office Professional Plus 2010 for £37.89 form software4students.co.uk
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John
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You can get various cheap licences for everything without an ac.uk address, it's just as illegal as downloading it if you have to licence it properly though.
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