MS Office Small Business Edition

[bucky88]

I am trying to figure out the best and cheapest (and legal) way of getting MS Office Small Bus. Edition for a new computer I am purchasing. I found these three choices:

1. Dell - $579.99

2. Tigerdirect.ca - $259.97

3. ebay - from about $150 - $200 including shipping for the Ulitimate version

Its seems the best deals are on ebay but they seem TGTBT. The ebay listings say they are full retail versions that are brand new and unopened. Also, a lot of these ebay vendors have little or not feedback history.

The tigerdirect deal is for an OEM version that does not come with discs but is downloaded from Microsoft. What happens if you need to reload the software later on?

Why would anyone pay the full retail price which is more than double????

B88

 

[BillyBobBobbybob]

Why do you need small business edition? You should be looking at Office Professional.

Also, 90% of Microsoft stuff on ebay are fake

 

[onehunglow]

I tell all my clients......No disks,.........no Deal!

Want a really great experience. Get a corrupt download from MS and try to explain it to them. They finally come clean but not without hours of dicking around with them.

Spend the money, get the disks.

 

[wowsitel]

have you heard of open office; its free
has all the features from office and more
have i mentioned its free

it lets you save the files as .doc so every one can open them
http://www.openoffice.org/

try this before giving away u r money

 

[21pro]

I just use free and cloud based google docs so I don't even have to save anything on my computer... or I also use open office like ^wowsitel, but if you're heart is set on Microsoft- here's the entire Ultimate suite legal licensed edition from the real microsoft site for under $70!

http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-ca/default.aspx

just need a university / or college email address or student id number. it can even be one from former students from years ago.

 

[i am one]

Is there any particular reason you need the Small Business Edition?

The Home and Student edition often goes on sale at various stores for $70-$100 and includes 3 user licenses.

 

[bucky88]

Is there any particular reason you need the Small Business Edition?

The Home and Student edition often goes on sale at various stores for $70-$100 and includes 3 user licenses.

It will be used for a business, so using Home and Student would not exactly be legal. What I went with is the upgrade version of MS Office Standard (which has Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook). The new Dell I am getting comes with Microsoft Works which qualifies for the MS Office upgrade version instead of the pricier full version. What I am getting is the retail version with the discs. The price for this from Dell was $270.

B88

 

[i am one]

It will be used for a business, so using Home and Student would not exactly be legal.

Please explain. Since when did purchasing different editions of computer software make it into Canadian law?

Here's a primer for those that don't know.

- Microsoft never discounts discontinued software. For example, Windows XP will still cost the same today as when it first came out. The cheaper prices come from OEM versions and retailers discounting the price themselves for sales and that's where customers must search.

- Anyone can purchase any edition of software whether it be the Student, Small Business or Professional editions. Microsoft highly discourages campus stores from selling Windows student editions to non-students, and these stores are generally pretty good about maintaining that. This doesn't apply to any other Microsoft software, just their OSes. On a side note, college/university employees are allowed to purchase student editions of Windows without hassle.

- The difference between the Student, Small Business and Professional editions of Office is in what applications are included. Here's a comparison: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101635841033.aspx Student & Home editions don't include Outlook because generally home users don't need it (or they can use the free Outlook Express version), but businesses do which is why it's included in the Business editions. All editions are available in retail stores to anyone.