Microsoft Office 2024 deals

[Jamescrs]

Looking for some advice/ experiences.

I’m currently paying a monthly subscription for Office 365 but it feels like a waste because I’m seeing a lot of deals for Office 2024 for under £20 with Groupon amongst other places.

The main use is for my daughter to use for school and she’s not a heavy user at all.

Is there any negative to these cheap office 2024 deals online?

[Gren]

Bought one myself a couple of months back. They are usually superfluous licenses from corporate deals

I think the only downsides are that they do not come with updates and you don't get the O365 bells and whistles. What you do get is bang up to date, fully functional, activated software. Perfect for home use

[alscar]

Eco keys worked well for me having seen a recommendation here.
One off cost easy to download and install.
They even offer an email helpline.

[Griffith4ever]

CD keys, any of those, Office pro plus, £19,95. You can go older (no light user will know or care which version of Word they are using) for around £6

https://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/Microsoft-Offi...

[Agent57]

Is it just me or do Microsoft products get worse and worse?

How many times do I have to keep paying for Office?

I don't want to have an account with Microsoft of pay a monthly subscription.

I just want basic Word, Excel and Outlook. I was quite happy with the 1997 and 2000 versions.

[Callerton]

Vote here for Ecokeys - £20 for Office 2024. Not cloud based, all I'll ever need. Installed no problem - just follow the instructions supplied.

[simon_harris]

Try software for students, used to get some cracking deals through there

https://www.software4students.co.uk/

[Jamescrs]

Thanks all for the replies, I have bought one off Groupon and with a coupon it came to around £9. I was slightly dubious about it but I went through the whole process of uninstalling Office 365 and buying a key for Office 2024 Professional and to my surprise it has all worked perfectly.

I don't know if it is missing some bells and whistles but for my daughters high school homework it will do fine, nice to drop another subscription fee every month too

[Captain_Morgan]

Jamescrs said:

Thanks all for the replies, I have bought one off Groupon and with a coupon it came to around £9. I was slightly dubious about it but I went through the whole process of uninstalling Office 365 and buying a key for Office 2024 Professional and to my surprise it has all worked perfectly.

I don't know if it is missing some bells and whistles but for my daughters high school homework it will do fine, nice to drop another subscription fee every month too

Don’t forget to plan how to back up her files, no one want to be in the I’ve lost/broken/spilt tea/it’s been stolen place with no access to her data.

[Steve_H80]

Agent57 said:

Is it just me or do Microsoft products get worse and worse?

How many times do I have to keep paying for Office?

I don't want to have an account with Microsoft of pay a monthly subscription.

I just want basic Word, Excel and Outlook. I was quite happy with the 1997 and 2000 versions.

The answer is to use one of the free alternatives, for me that is Libre Office and Thunderbird but there are others.

[Ranger 6]

Struggling to find a similar offer for 2024 on a Mac - any pointers that are better than my google search at £29.99?

[mikeiow]

Steve_H80 said:

Agent57 said:

Is it just me or do Microsoft products get worse and worse?

How many times do I have to keep paying for Office?

I don't want to have an account with Microsoft of pay a monthly subscription.

I just want basic Word, Excel and Outlook. I was quite happy with the 1997 and 2000 versions.

The answer is to use one of the free alternatives, for me that is Libre Office and Thunderbird but there are others.

Indeed.
TBH, having retired, I was looking to reduce the monthlies, & found there was very little Office offered that google drive couldn't do (& I was a heavy Office user through my career!).

Still have access to office online via my 'burner' hotmail account - used it once or twice, but really easy to use alternatives.
I looked at LibreOffice, but found it hard to figure out an easy way to access from all devices. Google Drive just works.

[camel_landy]

Ranger 6 said:

Struggling to find a similar offer for 2024 on a Mac - any pointers that are better than my google search at £29.99?

FWIW - I use LibreOffice on Mac (Thunderbird for email)... It's reassuringly similar to MS Office and other than some interface options in different places, I've not found any compatibility issues yet.

HTH

M

[Ranger 6]

- thanks, however I still need to use/provide native Office docs/files for work.

[camel_landy]

Ranger 6 said:

- thanks, however I still need to use/provide native Office docs/files for work.

Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.

M

[mikeiow]

Ranger 6 said:

- thanks, however I still need to use/provide native Office docs/files for work.

Er….if that is needed for work, doesn’t work pay for a full fat licence?

Or if self employed: well, google docs and sheets can open M$oft formats (& even export to them).

[Agent57]

Jamescrs said:

Thanks all for the replies, I have bought one off Groupon and with a coupon it came to around £9. I was slightly dubious about it but I went through the whole process of uninstalling Office 365 and buying a key for Office 2024 Professional and to my surprise it has all worked perfectly.

I don't know if it is missing some bells and whistles but for my daughters high school homework it will do fine, nice to drop another subscription fee every month too

Do you know the name of the underlying company that supplied?

Groupon lists several different suppliers:

RC software
Get Software Deals
Garcia Print

I'm too am dubious but willing to take a punt.

Thanks.

[jimmyjimjim]

You won't know what company it is. Probably somewhere in India, where an MS Office key is significantly cheaper than western countries.

I've used cjs-cd keys (linked above) many times without issue.

[Jamescrs]

Agent57 said:

Do you know the name of the underlying company that supplied?

Groupon lists several different suppliers:

RC software
Get Software Deals
Garcia Print

I'm too am dubious but willing to take a punt.

Thanks.

It was RC software, just checked back through my previous emails.

[Agent57]

Jamescrs said:

It was RC software, just checked back through my previous emails.

Many thanks. I'll give that a try.