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Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Da Dego, 14 Sep 2007.

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  1. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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  2. will.

    will. A motorbike of jealousy!

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    I got the macromedia studio 8 the same way.. although I wasn't a student, my little brother was :p
     
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  3. <A88>

    <A88> Trust the Computer

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    If my uni doesn't give me Office for free, I'm getting that.

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  4. DeXtmL

    DeXtmL What's a Dremel?

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    Google brings a competition in the office suite.
     
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  5. <A88>

    <A88> Trust the Computer

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    Pardon?

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  6. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    oasked, 14 Sep 2007
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  7. devdevil85

    devdevil85 What's a Dremel?

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    can anybody say "ebay" hehehe
     
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  8. zerolock

    zerolock What's a Dremel?

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    I would rather go for openoffice, hurray for free software! :)
    a nice move from microsoft though..
     
    zerolock, 14 Sep 2007
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  9. TomD22

    TomD22 What's a Dremel?

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    .edu? What? UK university web and e-mail addresses are .ac.uk
     
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  10. Acehole

    Acehole What's a Dremel?

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    ac.uk is ok too, look at the website ;)
     
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  11. TomD22

    TomD22 What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah, I just checked it out and saw that.

    But the bittech article specifically says "If you're a college or university student in the US, Great Britain or Canada and have a valid email address that end in ".edu", which obviously isn't correct.
     
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  12. Fr4nk

    Fr4nk Tyrannosaurus Alan !

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    you can also get it for £12.50 for year which is pretty sweet :)
     
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  13. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    Tbh, I'd rather support OOo and open standards rather then buggy poorly documented pseudo propriety ones.
     
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  14. Edenalig

    Edenalig What's a Dremel?

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    What about .sch.uk? Alot of students fall into those too......
     
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  15. squeck

    squeck Lurker

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    The .ac.uk domain is only for universities and six form colleges etc as far as i'm aware, whereas schools get the .sch.uk - so it looks like the offer is only open to uni students.
     
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  16. fathazza

    fathazza Freed on Probation

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    im game for this.

    It says they will send you out disks for a small extra charge but i cant find out at what stage of the process the option for that is?
     
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  17. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    NHS and some other government employees can get a copy for £17,95 under the Home Licence Scheme.
     
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  18. Buzzons

    Buzzons Minimodder

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    Nice one from MS there, good un cheep yayz0rs.

    Most CompSci courses offer the MSDNAA though, so if you are at uni doing compsci you should be able to get it from there for free
     
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  19. crazybob

    crazybob Voice of Reason

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    Just don't look forward to running that on Windows XP. It runs beautifully on Vista, but there's something different going on behind the scenes when you run it under XP. I was trying to do some data analysis in Excel 2007 on a friend's computer, and even with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, the system was absolutely crawling when I was working with graphs.
     
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  20. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    Works fine for me on XP. :)
     
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