Office 2016 where to download for computer dummy?

[GT4P]

Hi can anyone recommend a safe site for downloading office 2016 home and student one time agreement? I have found 2016 pro plus at the Microsoft store.org.uk for £26 but is this more than a home user will need over home and student package?

[sideways sid]

GT4P said:

Hi can anyone recommend a safe site for downloading office 2016 home and student one time agreement? I have found 2016 pro plus at the Microsoft store.org.uk for £26 but is this more than a home user will need over home and student package?

They sell Office 2019 for £26, too. Is this a legitimate supplier? If not, what's the catch?

[anonymoususer]

Fishier than a fish salad - not the OP
I mean come on everyone knows Office is expensive
The Home and student 2016 edition must have been what around £60 ish when released ?

[The_Doc]

https://theunitysoft.com

Legit and very useful

[mmm-five]

The_Doc said:

https://theunitysoft.com

Legit and very useful

Are you sure?

They may very well be 'legal' and 'genuine' licenses, but might not be legal to re-sell them to the general public (i.e. they may be developer, volume or OEM licenses, and not meant for resale).

But if Microsoft don't care (i.e. don't bother suing them), then why should a user

[anonymous-user]

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 4th September 21:55

[anonymous-user]

Jimboka said:

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by Jimboka on Friday 4th September 21:55

I had this at a previous job but the licence is only valid while you work there, if you leave the company the licence for all the software goes as well.

[anonymous-user]

gottans said:

Jimboka said:

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by Jimboka on Friday 4th September 21:55

I had this at a previous job but the licence is only valid while you work there, if you leave the company the licence for all the software goes as well.

Plus you can only get O365 with it now, can’t just buy a copy of Office anymore.

[anonymous-user]

gottans said:

Jimboka said:

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 4th September 21:55

I had this at a previous job but the licence is only valid while you work there, if you leave the company the licence for all the software goes as well.

I think that’s just a technicality ! the software works ‘forever’
I’ll find out when I retire

[Heres Johnny]

I've bought the licences off ebay before now which are said to be extracted from machines whichhad the software installed but failed in some way - licence codes have all worked fine on the online microsoft account validation thing so its not like I've tried to hide the fact with an off system validation and updates have been working fine too. Office costs a handful of beans

[Ydnaroo]

sideways sid said:

They sell Office 2019 for £26, too ...

I've recently upgraded a couple of my machines to Office Pro Plus 2019 from 2010 and one thing to be aware of is that 2019 by default will only install the whole suite of programs, you cannot select what you want at installation time as you could with older versions.. (This may also be true of 2016, I don't know.) I really only want Word & Excel.

There is a utility called Office Deployment Tool available from MS where you can edit small file to configure the installation and then follow a command line process to install what you want but it's a bit fiddly.

[snuffy]

gottans said:

Jimboka said:

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by Jimboka on Friday 4th September 21:55

I had this at a previous job but the licence is only valid while you work there, if you leave the company the licence for all the software goes as well.

I'd not let that bother you.

And of course, how would MS know anyway ?

[anonymous-user]

snuffy said:

gottans said:

Jimboka said:

Can you get it through work? Home Use Programme
I can get Office Professional Plus 2016 for £9.95..

Edited by Jimboka on Friday 4th September 21:55

I had this at a previous job but the licence is only valid while you work there, if you leave the company the licence for all the software goes as well.

I'd not let that bother you.

And of course, how would MS know anyway ?

It doesn't bother me at all as I already had Office but these were the T&C's we were told about in relation to this offer. You can bothered if you wish but I won't be bothered whether you are bothered or not.