3months Office 365 +20GB of SkyDrive storage free for students

Quote from Takasniper : So my question is since we have office 365 for 3 months does that include 2 cd keys for office 2013? Or would office 2013 be a trial version that last for 3 months? Pretty slick deal if you get office 2013 with two cd keys that don't expire.

AFTER the trial is up, you can SUBSCRIBE for $80 for FOUR YEARS [microsoft.com]. (That's $20 a year, paid in advance.)

That includes the Office 2013 license, all the updates to Office for the next four years, plus the cloud stuff INCLUDING the 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage.

You do NOT receive CD Keys, your subscription is tied to your email address. That means you can install it on multiple computers. There's even a "temporary" streaming install that you can use on a loaner computer that uninstalls when your done, as well as just being able to work in the web pages like Google Docs (but better)

Once the subscription expires, Office will go into "Read Only" mode. If your documents in SkyDrive total more than your purchased space, SkyDrive goes into "Read Only" mode until you're below your space limit.

Quote from Zanthexter : AFTER the trial is up, you can SUBSCRIBE for $80 for FOUR YEARS [microsoft.com]. (That's $20 a year, paid in advance.) That includes the Office 2013 license, all the updates to Office for the next four years, plus the cloud stuff INCLUDING the 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage. You do NOT receive CD Keys, your subscription is tied to your email address. That means you can install it on multiple computers. There's even a "temporary" streaming install that you can use on a loaner computer that uninstalls when your done, as well as just being able to work in the web pages like Google Docs (but better) Once the subscription expires, Office will go into "Read Only" mode. If your documents in SkyDrive total more than your purchased space, SkyDrive goes into "Read Only" mode until you're below your space limit.

Really appreciate the info.

Quote from Count_Chocula : $10/month or $100/yr All SkyDrive users receive 7 GB of SkyDrive storage for free. Additional storage can be purchased if needed. Customers with an active Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 University subscription get an additional 20 GB of SkyDrive storage as part of their subscription service, making a total of 27 GB of storage. This additional 20 GB of SkyDrive storage is applied to the SkyDrive account that is linked to the Microsoft account used to create the Office 365 subscription account.

Thanks!

Quote from Zanthexter : AFTER the trial is up, you can SUBSCRIBE for $80 for FOUR YEARS [microsoft.com]. (That's $20 a year, paid in advance.) That includes the Office 2013 license, all the updates to Office for the next four years, plus the cloud stuff INCLUDING the 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage. You do NOT receive CD Keys, your subscription is tied to your email address. That means you can install it on multiple computers. There's even a "temporary" streaming install that you can use on a loaner computer that uninstalls when your done, as well as just being able to work in the web pages like Google Docs (but better) Once the subscription expires, Office will go into "Read Only" mode. If your documents in SkyDrive total more than your purchased space, SkyDrive goes into "Read Only" mode until you're below your space limit.

That is pretty cheap!

Don't BOX and Dropbox provide free 20+G ?

Why would I ever use this service that it will be only 7G free after 3 month?

Does MS ever do market research?

Quote from killdiablo : Don't BOX and Dropbox provide free 20+G ? Why would I ever use this service that it will be only 7G free after 3 month? Does MS ever do market research?

lol apparently you dont do your research. Dropbox only offers 5GB free to start (hence the 7GB-one-upping from MS).

Box offer 25GB but its software is shitty. I had a free business version that had 50GB free, but got rid of it after a month or so.

Plus, no one is forcing you to use their product. They don't have to give your jack-sh!t for free. I hate it when people complain about FREE STUFF.

My alumni email address from UCI worked, not sure if that was intended or not (I was never able to get the other Office student deals that required .edu address).

Does anyone know if that $80 for 4 years deal works with alumni emails too?

If I have Office 2013 Pro Plus, will this Office 365 University replace what I already have installed?

Quote from cuoreesitante : lol apparently you dont do your research. Dropbox only offers 5GB free to start (hence the 7GB-one-upping from MS). Box offer 25GB but its software is shitty. I had a free business version that had 50GB free, but got rid of it after a month or so. Plus, no one is forcing you to use their product. They don't have to give your jack-sh!t for free. I hate it when people complain about FREE STUFF.

So why I have 20GB free dropbox and 50GB free Box? I saw this thread just b/c it shows in popular deals or I won't bother read this thread.

Enjoy your 7GB from MS. I don't even care.

EDIT: Disregard

Quote from killdiablo : Don't BOX and Dropbox provide free 20+G ? Why would I ever use this service that it will be only 7G free after 3 month? Does MS ever do market research?

Like many things in life, this is one of those "you get what you pay for" sorts of things.

Keeping in mind that this is aimed towards students, there is a LOT here that DropBox doesn't offer, and a good bit that Google Docs doesn't offer as well.

You might want to follow the links, and do a little research on exactly what Office365 is about.

Quote from The Beast : If I have Office 2013 Pro Plus, will this Office 365 University replace what I already have installed?

You don't have to reinstall, you can just connect your existing Pro Plus to the account. It's even still worth paying for, since the student license allows you to install it on multiple computers, and the Pro Plus license you have probably doesn't.

I'm assuming it's all paid for and legal. If it's not, this $80 deal is a good way to get legal for the next 4 years. It's a reasonable and fair price.

The previous gmail HUP was much better. $20 for 2-PC license, and NO TIME LIMIT. This whole Office subscription thing is BS and designed to SUCK YOUR MONEY.

[[(QUOTE=Zanthexter;58160368]There is no practical reason to use Office 2010 over 2013. )[/QUOTE]

I find there is no practical reason to pay for upgrades for products that are not a significant improvement that also meet my needs and requirements. I'm not saying that Office 365 or 2013 is not worth ugrading to but typically (especially with MS) Software companies tend to want to sell useless upgrades when their old product is perfectly fine. Win8 vs Win7 is a pefect example.