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Microsoft Equipt (Office 2007 Home Student AND Live OneCare 12m subscription for 3 Home PCs) at PC World for £59.99 (+£4.95 if delivered)


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STARTS: 20/10/2008   

Hadn't realised this had been released - though the recent plunge in price of the Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student edition from c£100 to c£60 should have given the game away!

Apparently it's only at PC World for now - from 20/10 onwards. I saw an advert in today's Independent newspaper - it's their product code 634235

Your 12-month renewable subscription includes:
* Windows Live OneCare antivirus, antispyware, firewall, online identity theft protection, automated tune-ups, file and photo backup, and multi-PC management
*Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and OneNote 2007
* Windows Live tools Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, Writer, and Toolbar
* Automatic security updates and version upgrades for Office Home and Student and OneCare
* Free e-mail support
* Use for up to 3 home PCs

Full details of the "Microsoft Equipt" product/package at Microsoft UK:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/equipt/

What seems to be DIFFERENT to just buying Office2007H&S is that this is a SUBSCRIPTION package and while your subcription is active you get FREE updates even to the Office software BUT if your Sub has lapsed (in 12m time) you can still open/print with the Office software but NOT edit !!!!
See the FAQs on the Microsoft UK site (link above).

Incidentally the yanks can buy this for $69.99 at Circuit City (per Microsoft USA) which translates to just £44, ie we have to pay 36% more :( Though I guess their spelling dictionaries are shorter due to their only being able to cope with words in American English.

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Why on earth do you want to pay £60 a year for MS Office.

I cannot see how anyone can believe its a decent deal.
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Why on earth do you want to pay £60 a year for MS Office.

I cannot see how anyone can believe its a decent deal.
You aren't buying JUST MS Office and you ARE buying OneCare for 3 PCs AND no-one said that the renewal subscription was £60 (though I can't see what it IS meant to be) AND you do get "unlimited e-mail customer support".
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Is it not the case that "MS Office is for life (not just for christmas) - the oncecare is for the for the year and you dont have to ever install it !!
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I think "eek" is RIGHT to be concerned about the 12m nature of your ability/right to use the MS Office 2007 Home & Student - ie it's time bombed software UNLESS you continue to subscribe!

The bonus is that IF MS release a MS Office 2009 or similar during your 12m subscription then you get that automatically - though that too will stop working (ie become just a viewer/printer) when your sub' lapses!

MS Office 2007 H&S - with an ongoing licence - is around £55-£60 but as you say WITHOUT OneCare (around £15-£25) and WITHOUT any Office version UPGRADES, only updates.

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It does however seem that the £60 is meant to be PER YEAR which is daylight robbery compared to OpenOffice/GoogleDocs etc - well at least posting this is valid is it IS the best deal on Equipt - it's exclusive to PC World apparently (as it is to Circuit City in the US since mid July 2008) - and helps get the issues debated here.
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If you have any kids in school and are happy to just be able to install on one desktop and one laptop, then the offers at software4students are much better. I got MS Office with Access, Outlook and Publisher for about £45.
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Some places of work belong to Home use Program, such as BT. I got MS Office 2007 for:

Product Name: Office Enterprise 2007 Win32 English Direct DVD Home Use
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Unit Price: 17.31
Item Total: 17.31 GBP
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So the good news was this worked out to be a fantastic deal for me as MS gave up on Equipt and gave a pro-rata refund AND a copy of MS Office Home & Student 2007 (for 3 PCs). So for under £10 net cost I had the use of Office/OneCare for 6 months or so and ended up with legit MS Office 2007 on 3 PCs for next to nothing = result!

(Those thinking it was a lousy deal = right of course at the time, but not in hindsight.)
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