Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for only $64

[AvengeR]

Microsoft is offering its Office Ultimate 2007 edition for only $64 for any University/College student in Canada.

The Ultimate edition comes with:

• Access™ 2007
• Excel® 2007
• InfoPath® 2007
• Groove 2007
• OneNote® 2007
• Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• PowerPoint® 2007
• Publisher 2007
• Word 2007

You also have the option to buy a 1 year subscription for $22. Offer expires April 30, 2008.

Details here... http://www.theultimatesteal.ca/

[BlackArcher101]

Goes to show how much of a rip off it is at regular price.

Too bad I'm not a student and too bad it doesn't have Project and Visio. I used those two programs along with Word and Excel the most.

[habernac]

any students here want to buy it for me? PM me if you're able.

[kootenayguy9]

Interesting Deal

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...teStealPR.mspx

[habernac]

ah, yes, I should have picked that up from the webiste itself.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Uhh no. It's legit.

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...d.php?t=489701

[calculoso]

Just a warning about Office 2007 - it uses a different file format than previous Office versions... and has a .docx extension (for Word, others are similar) to designate this. Others (without Office 2007) will have to get a viewer to open the files.

[corporatejay]

what? are you serious? so if I use office 2k7 and send someone a file they can't open it with Word XP?

[photon]

Office 2007 still supports previous file versions as well, so you can save as a .doc and Office 97-2003 can open it.

EDIT: And actually I like the .docx format because it's an open format and stores stuff in XML, so anyone can create a reader for a .docx

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

what? are you serious? so if I use office 2k7 and send someone a file they can't open it with Word XP?

This is no big deal - You can set it so it defaults to the old Office XP .doc format rather than the new .docx format.

[Bobblehead]

1) Offer a good price so student will pay for something they would pirate otherwise
2) Get future users user to MS-Office 2K7
3) Prevent future users from getting used to Open Office / Google Docs

I wonder how much weight each of those reasons were getting from Microsoft when they decided on this program?

[Sparks]

Get Open Office, especially if you're a student. It's got the same stuff (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, etc), and it's free (and legitimate). It even loads and saves Office files.

Here's a link: http://www.openoffice.org/

Honestly, it's fantastic. You can even get a Canadian English dictionary for the spell checker. Holy crap. Microsoft will never figure that one out.

[arsenal]

As others have mentioned the .docx or .xlsx is a few format. It's just an XML version of the file (which is default now). You actually can save any Office 2003 as an XML format as well. The new format is just meant to make it easier for developers to modify multiple office documents from code.
It is pretty cool, well i think it is anyway.

I also think part of it was to allow applications like OpenOffice the ability to open, modify and save MS Office documents. As long as it conformed to the Markup Language standards for the document.

But looking at the OpenOffice.org website, it looks like they voted against OOXML as a standard for Office type documents.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by calculoso

Just a warning about Office 2007 - it uses a different file format than previous Office versions... and has a .docx extension (for Word, others are similar) to designate this. Others (without Office 2007) will have to get a viewer to open the files.

You need to download a patch from microsoft to use docx files with office 2003. Simple fix if you have Word already, otherwise you can just download the viewer.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by Sparks

Get Open Office, especially if you're a student. It's got the same stuff (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, etc), and it's free (and legitimate). It even loads and saves Office files.

Here's a link: http://www.openoffice.org/

Honestly, it's fantastic. You can even get a Canadian English dictionary for the spell checker. Holy crap. Microsoft will never figure that one out.

Cept if you use tables. Even the new version of Open Office mangles Word tables.

I don't quite understand the need to upgrade from Office2003 to anything else. It does everything I need and is supported by everything out there.

[calculoso]

I've never used Office 2007 due to the new XML format being different, and so didn't know that the default format could be changed. Thanks for the update. It's still something to look out for - and a warning for new users who don't know computers very well (why can't anyone open my files???)