Cheapest place to buy Word for Mac??

[Karen182]

Anyone know where is a good place to buy it for cheapness?

[theboss]

If you or anyone else in your household is in education (inc. part time) or teaches then you can qualify for the Student Edition of Office 2004:

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjec

Failing that you'll just need to fork out the going rate which appears to be about £175 for Word alone.

Or you can just download it and install it illegally, not that any of us would endorse that of course...

Edited to say check out Fleabay as well...

Edited by theboss on Tuesday 13th February 00:18

[Karen182]

£175

[The Dude]

Karen, I use NeoOffice - it does pretty much everything MS Office does but for free.

www.neooffice.org/

Save your money, buy something nice instead.

[theboss]

Karen182 said:

£175

What did you expect from Microsoft, they never got rich by under-charging!!

[Plotloss]

The Dude said:

Save your money, buy something nice instead.

A PC, perhaps?

[The Dude]

Plotloss said:

The Dude said:

Save your money, buy something nice instead.

A PC, perhaps?

No really

[Plotloss]

Yeah, at least my bluetooth works...

[The Dude]

Plotloss said:

Yeah, at least my bluetooth works...

Lousy bastard, I told you that in confidence

And mine works too (now).

[fto2tuscan]

torrentspy?

[tigger1]

fto2tuscan said:

torrentspy?

Naughty.

Is OpenOffice available for Mac? That's free too...a good alternative, unless you're wanting to use the higher end features in word....whatever they might be!

[vex]

Neo-Office is a OS X tweeked version of Open Office.

I use Star Office here in the, erm, office and have Neo on the Mac at home. Both great and the further away I can get form Mr Gates the better IMO.

Chris

[jimothy]

I'm shocked that anyone would use limewire or torrentx to download Office for Mac. All because it doesn't come with any registration codes and all you have to do is drop the folder into your applications folder does not mean anyone should pirate it.

Someone got nicked once for pirating it - he plugged his iPod into a mac in a computer store and copied it off only to get caught by the security guards.

[tigger1]

jimothy said:

Someone got nicked once for pirating it - he plugged his iPod into a mac in a computer store and copied it off only to get caught by the security guards.

Amazed that one wasn't more widely reported in the press...you got any links to that story anywhere?

[PJ S]

Mariner Software

[jimothy]

tigger1 said:

jimothy said:

Someone got nicked once for pirating it - he plugged his iPod into a mac in a computer store and copied it off only to get caught by the security guards.

Amazed that one wasn't more widely reported in the press...you got any links to that story anywhere?

www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50688,00.html

[bga]

theboss said:

If you or anyone else in your household is in education (inc. part time) or teaches then you can qualify for the Student Edition of Office 2004:

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjec

I have brought a fair number of Office Student Editions over the last couple of years & have never had to prove that I meet their requirements (although I actually have)

[jimothy]

YHM!

[chris.mapey]

IIRC Open Office is now available for Mac.

No charge

Chris

[robbieduncan]

If you work for a large company you may qualify to purchase it under a site license extension deal. I got my copy for £17.50 (for the full Office suite) under this...