A low income program?

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spondee

I know, this is crazy but...

Through the years, I've bought and paid for win 3.1, 98, xp home, and all
versions there of, Then Office 2000, and 2003, and One note.

Now, there is NO WAY I can afford even the UPGRADE price of Office 2007
Standard, yet I need it. (Now almost homebound, I do almost everything
online!)

Does Microsoft have some kind of 'discount' program for the eldery/disabled?
Folks on extremely low incomes???
 
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Gordon

spondee said:
I know, this is crazy but...

Through the years, I've bought and paid for win 3.1, 98, xp home, and all
versions there of, Then Office 2000, and 2003, and One note.

Now, there is NO WAY I can afford even the UPGRADE price of Office 2007
Standard, yet I need it. (Now almost homebound, I do almost everything
online!)

Does Microsoft have some kind of 'discount' program for the
eldery/disabled?
Folks on extremely low incomes???
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if you don't create complicated documents with obscure formatting, then try
Open Office. it's free and is generally compatible with MS Office versions
prior to 2007.

www.openoffice.org
 
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spondee

Home and Student is the inexpensive noncommercial version.
Is NOT inexpensive and DOES NOT contain Outlook...
 
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Steve Rindsberg

if you don't create complicated documents with obscure formatting, then try
Open Office. it's free and is generally compatible with MS Office versions
prior to 2007.
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Less so, I'd imagine, than Office 2003, which spondee already has. ;-)
 
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Gordon

Steve Rindsberg said:
Less so, I'd imagine, than Office 2003, which spondee already has. ;-)
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As you so rightly point out - if what he has works, why the question about
upgrading? (Unless he has an OEM version and is wanting a new computer....)
 
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Gordon

Steve Rindsberg said:
Less so, I'd imagine, than Office 2003, which spondee already has. ;-)
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As you so rightly point out - if what he has works, why the question about
upgrading? (Unless he has an OEM version and is wanting a new computer....)
 
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DL

I find it kinda hard to figure out why a home user 'must have' Office2007
Unless its for some commercial use
 
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Steve Rindsberg

As you so rightly point out - if what he has works, why the question about
upgrading? (Unless he has an OEM version and is wanting a new computer....)
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That, or perhaps has a customer that requires work done in 2007.
 
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Steve Rindsberg

I find it kinda hard to figure out why a home user 'must have' Office2007
Unless its for some commercial use
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Works from home, perhaps.

That'd rule out even the Home and Student edition, unfortunately.
 
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Steve Rindsberg

But then it's a business expense and then wouldn't qualify for "seniors
only special pricing".
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Now you're confusing me.

There *is* no "seniors only special pricing".

How can where/how you use the software affect whether or not you qualify for
something that isn't available to anyone?
 
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Bob I

Steve said:
Now you're confusing me.

There *is* no "seniors only special pricing".

How can where/how you use the software affect whether or not you qualify for
something that isn't available to anyone?
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The OP "claimed" they "needed" Office 2007 and believed there should be
some special pricing for them to avail themselves of. They got bent out
of shape when H&S was pointed out, and replied that it "didn't have
Outlook" and wasn't "cheap".
 
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Steve Rindsberg

The OP "claimed" they "needed" Office 2007 and believed there should be
some special pricing for them to avail themselves of. They got bent out
of shape when H&S was pointed out, and replied that it "didn't have
Outlook" and wasn't "cheap".
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True of H&S. Which isn't "seniors only special pricing" ...
But let's let it go.
 
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