Start the new year by not cheating…
The It’s Not Cheating promotion is back again, and as I posted last year, Microsoft are offering to students, Office 2007 Ultimate for just $75. This time around, however, it is open to University AND TAFE students.
Just to recap, Office 2007 Ultimate edition contains Access, Accounting Express, Excel, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Word. According to StaticIce, the cheapest you can get it for is AUD$445 (academic license, otherwise it is about $750). Through the Its Not Cheating promotion, you can get it for $25 for one year, or $75 “for life”. There is an additional cost if you want the DVD posted out ($17), but there is always the choice of downloading it.
To promote this, Microsoft has created a competition for us MSP’s (and a few others), to win a smartphone or/and Xbox360 (with 3 games). I don’t particularly need (although I certainly do want) either of those prizes, so I’d rather somebody more deserving gets them…and Long had the fantastic idea of opening the competition up to anybody who reads his blog, rather than entering it himself.
So, instead of competing against him, which would undoubtedly result in a Goliath (Long) vs David (Me) battle, if you want a chance to win the smartphone or Xbox360 I’m encouraging you to make your way over to Long’s Its Not Cheating Competition blog post.
