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StackSocial has Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 Lifetime License (Windows Digital Download) for $49.99.

Also available, StackSocial has Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 Lifetime License (Mac Digital Download) for $49.99.

Thanks to community members Redmont & ramarora87 for finding this deal.

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  • Office Professional Plus 2021 includes:
    • Microsoft Office Word
    • Microsoft Office Excel
    • Microsoft Office PowerPoint
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
    • Microsoft Office Teams
    • Microsoft Office OneNote
    • Microsoft Office Publisher
    • Microsoft Office Access
    • Lync (Skype for Business) and Infopath

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Stacksocial has a lifetime license for MS Office Professional for Widows or Mac for $50.00

https://stacksocial.com/sales/mic...or-windows

I personally would not buy an annual license to any software. If any software I buy a permanent license for eventually becomes outdated for my purposes, then I will buy another permanent license of a more recent version. But I understand that some people (who must do some really high powered word processing ) feel they need their Office software improved every year. For those people this seems to be an incredible deal. As far as I know Stacksocial is legitimate and in any case too high profile to post a sketchy deal. So I believe this to be a real license. I do note that the actual seller is a company known as Topfastkeys. They supposedly have a Trustpilot rating of 4.2 out of 5 for what that is worth. But again Stacksocial is a high profile site that likely gets regularly monitored by IP lawyers and MS.
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it's a 3rd party seller called "Topfastkeys"... these keys are definitely bootleg.

these are usually stolen keys generated through a company's corporate license. if a large company prepays for, say, a block of 1500 licenses for their employees, the price per key is really really cheap. so some sleazy IT employees will "issue" 50-100 of those keys to themselves (steal them) and then sell the keys to off-shore resellers like "Topfastkeys" who then sell the stolen keys to you

it's unlikely that the company will ever find out as a few stolen keys is a rounding error for these big fortune 500 companies and they likely won't deactivate your key even is MS finds out... but that's why there's a "warranty" because if/when they do find out, all unactivated keys in the block will get wiped.
...A couple of things to consider:

1. Bootleg keys- if they do work (and they usually do) might eventually get de-activated.
2. "Lifetime" key, to my understanding, is for the lifetime of the device on which the key is originally assigned. To re-assign a key to another device usually requires a call to Microsoft. At least that's what has happened in the past- I've been retired for a while and things may be different now.
3. Microsoft has an online version of Office that'sfree [microsoft.com]
4. There's also Libre Office [libreoffice.org] , Which has always been free. With a few setting changes, it will function just like MS Office- Saving files with the same MS extensions (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)
I wouldn't count on these lasting very long. I bought keys from a similar deal, also from a seller that appeared to be reputable, only to have MS deactivate them after a few months.

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01-21-2022 at 05:36 AM.
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Hmm, I'll wait until all the negative Nellies post
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01-21-2022 at 05:51 AM.
01-21-2022 at 05:51 AM.
Doesn't using Visa/MC offer a level of protection if this license is bogus?
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01-21-2022 at 05:51 AM.
01-21-2022 at 05:51 AM.
Quote from blast3d :
Hmm, I'll wait until all the negative Nellies post

"for Widows or Mac" so a bereavement rate or for the lucky Irish only 😁
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01-21-2022 at 05:56 AM.
01-21-2022 at 05:56 AM.
What did this mean?

1-year warranty on license keys
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01-21-2022 at 06:19 AM.
01-21-2022 at 06:19 AM.
Quote from iuku :
What did this mean?

1-year warranty on license keys
it might mean that they will guarantee the key to work if you activate within one year of purchase — but if you wait longer than that to activate the key then they do not guaranteed it will work
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01-21-2022 at 06:39 AM.

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01-21-2022 at 06:39 AM.
it's a 3rd party seller called "Topfastkeys"... these keys are definitely bootleg.

these are usually stolen keys generated through a company's corporate license. if a large company prepays for, say, a block of 1500 licenses for their employees, the price per key is really really cheap. so some sleazy IT employees will "issue" 50-100 of those keys to themselves (steal them) and then sell the keys to off-shore resellers like "Topfastkeys" who then sell the stolen keys to you

it's unlikely that the company will ever find out as a few stolen keys is a rounding error for these big fortune 500 companies and they likely won't deactivate your key even is MS finds out... but that's why there's a "warranty" because if/when they do find out, all unactivated keys in the block will get wiped.
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GoddessParis
01-21-2022 at 06:44 AM.
01-21-2022 at 06:44 AM.
Quote from erishun :
it's a 3rd party seller called "Topfastkeys"... these keys are definitely bootleg.

these are usually stolen keys generated through a company's corporate license. if a large company prepays for, say, a block of 1500 licenses for their employees, the price per key is really really cheap. so some sleazy IT employees will "issue" 50-100 of those keys to themselves (steal them) and then sell the keys to off-shore resellers like "Topfastkeys" who then sell the stolen keys to you

it's unlikely that the company will ever find out as a few stolen keys is a rounding error for these big fortune 500 companies and they likely won't deactivate your key even is MS finds out... but that's why there's a "warranty" because if/when they do find out, all unactivated keys in the block will get wiped.
If this is the case, can the company view the files under those licenses?
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01-21-2022 at 07:02 AM.

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Quote from Redmont :
But I understand that some people (who must do some really high powered word processing ) feel they need their Office software improved every year.
For me the real benefit of Office 365 is 1TB of Onedrive that i can share with up to 6 accounts (could even get 6TB if you make 6 accounts). Usually get it for around $50 during the holidays so 6TB/year for $50 is a good deal imo. Getting the office suite is a bonus in my use case.
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ChiildManson
01-21-2022 at 07:07 AM.
01-21-2022 at 07:07 AM.
can i use the license for multiple pcs then?
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01-21-2022 at 07:07 AM.

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...A couple of things to consider:

1. Bootleg keys- if they do work (and they usually do) might eventually get de-activated.
2. "Lifetime" key, to my understanding, is for the lifetime of the device on which the key is originally assigned. To re-assign a key to another device usually requires a call to Microsoft. At least that's what has happened in the past- I've been retired for a while and things may be different now.
3. Microsoft has an online version of Office that'sfree [microsoft.com]
4. There's also Libre Office [libreoffice.org] , Which has always been free. With a few setting changes, it will function just like MS Office- Saving files with the same MS extensions (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)
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TerryR2973
01-21-2022 at 07:18 AM.
01-21-2022 at 07:18 AM.
I bought this for Office 2019 a few years ago and it still works fine. I just installed it on a new laptop a few weeks ago.
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Toddster
01-21-2022 at 07:19 AM.
01-21-2022 at 07:19 AM.
This is pirated for sure. Don't pay the pirates... they stole it themselves.
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karazi
01-21-2022 at 07:30 AM.
01-21-2022 at 07:30 AM.
Really weird that SD tolerates pirated keys being posted for sale on their site nearly every day
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