Microsoft is offering “students” up to 30% off Office 2008 for Mac with the purchase of any Mac at Apple resellers now through Sept. 8, 2008.
A full list of participating Apple resellers is available by going to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/promotions/default.mspx and clicking on a “Save Now” link.
In addition, many schools have volume licensing agreements with Microsoft Corp. and are able to provide discounted licenses of Microsoft software for student use.
To learn more about academic pricing and software availability, students should contact their school’s bookstore or visit http://www.microsoft.com/education/howtobuystudents.mspx for special pricing.
Source: Microsoft
MacDailyNews Take: Do you really need Microsoft Office? Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’08 trial a try and find out for yourself.
When do we get 30% of the Mac? Hopefully that’s what the so called products transition is about…
Anyone know if the new iWork can open the default file formats of new Office for Windows?
@Jubei
Yes, they can.
Students, save your money for Thirsty Thursday. There are free solutions out there that actually work. Office is unusable.
And be sure to check out the Mojave Experience on your way out!
Jubel –
The answer to your question is yes.
Better yet, just Buy a Mac and forget Office. And if you need a suite, go for iWork, the free NeoOffice or OpenOffice, or the IBM/Lotus counterpart. Me, I bought a Home Use copy of Office 2004 for $19.95 through my old government office.
Sounds good for those who may need it or can’t do without Office…but…isn’t M$ a little late for back to school promotions?? School has already started here in GA. Most people have already made their computer purchase.
Office is 95% useless (OpenOffice, amongst few, works pretty well) so microsoft can easely do some “tremendous bargains” on their suite…
iWork is only really good for flyers, cards, and KEYNOTE.
Otherwise Office takes the cake with word processing and spreadsheets, hands down.
Why do kids from GA have to go to school one month earlier than the rest of North America?
Excel for Mac was good in the 80’s. It has grown bloated faster than Ballmer.
@Jay-Z
Office is unusable? Granted, I have Office for Windows in mind when I say this, but MS Office is anything but unusable.
Star Office: unusable.
NeoOffice: unusable.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets: unusable.
Big Al
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-Because they need it…..
Office does NOT take the cake..!
Excel may do, I admit – but only if you are an extremely advanced economist or bean counter. For any normal user Numbers does a great job.
Otherwise Pages is a FAR better and more efficient word processor than the bloated and slow Word.
Keynote also runs rings around the awful Powerpoint.
@ Big Al
Cause they are being invaded by Russia. Need the kids back in school.
Better yet, if you are switching from Windows, charge the upgrade price for the Mac Version.
U Cinci student price for Office is $13 – you only get the CD, and it is for student use only, but a great price. Many Universities may offer this – check before wasting money that you’ll need for $$books$$
Do you really need iWork ’08? Give the free NeoOffice a try and find out for yourself.
Office sucks, iWork rocks. I can’t STAND office for Mac or PC…. its just not right the way everything works, and its just plain ugly.
Office 2008 is a POS! How in the world can a Universal app run slower on Intel hardware than 2004 (PPC only) ran in Rosetta?!
Emulation faster than native? Only Microsucks could do that.
The biggest problem I have with Numbers is that you can’t lock the column headings so that you can see them as you scroll down a large spreadsheet.
So you can’t really use it for large spreadsheets.
@kirkrr,
Ahhh….another Cincy boy! U.C. was where I went to med school.
And, I’m a native Cincinnatian now in Philthadelphia.
(And, yes I spelled Philthadelphia right)
I think office still has advantages over iWork. I love iWork for home projects but excel 2008 is more powerful for professional output.
I tried Open Office and I think it has some weird behaviors.
Although pages has great layout potential, it is also not 100% compatible with word DOC files required for resumes and other documents.
iWork? NeoOffice? OpenOffice/Aqua?
Why choose?
Buy one. Get one free!