Microsoft allows students to steal Office
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This would sort of go against the grain, after all of the efforts being put into protecting their products, to the extent that a family has to buy several copies of Vista in order to run it on the families computers, for Microsoft to come out with this seems to be giving the go ahead for students to commit software piracy or something.
But this is Microsoft that we are talking and could we ever really believe that they would allow anybody to steal any part of their product list, even ME!
So the “Steal” actually refers to the “Deal” that they are offering college students, which goes a bit like this. To kind of persuade students not to steal, copy or buy pirated copies of Office, the company says that college students will be able to buy a genuine copy of Office for a “Steal” you see that is how they worked that into the equation, very clever!
However the deal is really good, college students will be able to buy the ultimate edition of office, this one that has everything, you could say that it is fully loaded and this deal it not just for students in the states, for it is going to be rolled out in the UK, Canada, France, Italy and Spain.
Students must be actively enrolled in a higher education program and have an email address that is from the school to prove it.
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