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Microsoft Office Professional 2021 Lifetime License (Windows Digital Download)

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Gamespot has Microsoft Office 2021 Lifetime License (Digital Download) on sale for $35.99.

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Available:Office Professional 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
Office Home & Business Includes:
  • Microsoft Office Word
  • Microsoft Office Excel
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office Outlook
  • Microsoft Office Teams (Basic Only)
  • Microsoft Office OneNote

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $315 lower (90% savings) than the listed retail price.
  • About this product:
    • Purchase is good for one-time purchase for one PC or Mac
    • Redemption Deadline: Redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • About this seller:
    • You can view the Gamespot Refund & Return Policy here
  • Additional Note:
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread here for additional discussion regarding this deal.

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Gamespot has Microsoft Office 2021 Lifetime License (Digital Download) on sale for $35.99.

Thanks to Community Member promo-offer for finding this deal.

Available:Office Professional 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
Office Home & Business Includes:
  • Microsoft Office Word
  • Microsoft Office Excel
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office Outlook
  • Microsoft Office Teams (Basic Only)
  • Microsoft Office OneNote

Editor's Notes

Written by persian_mafia | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $315 lower (90% savings) than the listed retail price.
  • About this product:
    • Purchase is good for one-time purchase for one PC or Mac
    • Redemption Deadline: Redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • About this seller:
    • You can view the Gamespot Refund & Return Policy here
  • Additional Note:
    • Please refer to the Forum Thread here for additional discussion regarding this deal.

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Yet another StackSocial skin.

See all the dozens of other posts promoting this grey market license key junk
Can this be installed on multiple machines, or is it a lifetime license for the machine it's installed on?

EDIT: Just reread the post and answered my own question:

"One-time purchase installed on 1 Windows PC for use at home or work"
It isn't GameStop. It's GameSpot. So, you're not buying from a retailer.

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Yet another StackSocial skin.

See all the dozens of other posts promoting this grey market license key junk
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Can't go too wrong buying the latest Office Pro for $36....'grey market' or not, who cares? If MS wanted to stop this type of thing from happening....they would. They are making more money selling cheap licenses than keeping the price up and driving people to pirate it, and protecting their market share from FREE google office apps. Plenty of morons are still going to pay $220 on Amazon for this, so try not to lose too much sleep over the PnL impact to Microsoft from selling cheap Office keys.
Last edited by karazi October 5, 2022 at 07:16 PM.
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Can this be installed on multiple machines, or is it a lifetime license for the machine it's installed on?

EDIT: Just reread the post and answered my own question:

"One-time purchase installed on 1 Windows PC for use at home or work"
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Quote from karazi :
Can't go too wrong buying the latest Office Pro for $36....'grey market' or not, who cares? If MS wanted to stop this type of thing from happening....they would. They are making more money selling cheap licenses than keeping the price up and driving people to pirate it, and protecting their market share from FREE google office apps. Plenty of morons are still going to pay $220 on Amazon for this, so try not to lose too much sleep over the PnL impact to Microsoft from selling cheap Office keys.
Microsoft doesn't make any money from this. It must be a volume license which the gray market seller paid a fixed fee. Microsoft could stop this but with the side effect of blocking legitimate licenses. So they eat this cost.

If Microsoft decides to block this, $36 is not much to lose. But again why would you pay pretty much a pirate $36? Might as well download the bootleg for free. It's stupid to pay for a pirated copy.
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Differences between Pro and Pro Plus?

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Differences between Pro and Pro Plus?
Pro Plus includes Skype for business. I bought mine from another seller and it's an MSDN license and registered in my Microsoft account. It was less than $30 so no big loss if it's deactivated, which I don't think will happen.
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What happens to the data stored on the 1TB OneDrive available with the subscription model? I can also share my subscription with 4 people who each get their own 1 TB of OneDrive. I saw this deal today on Mashable, but with my employer discount the subscription was $79 per year. That cost isn't too bad for 5 individuals to use.
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Quote from nyknicks8 :
Microsoft doesn't make any money from this. It must be a volume license which the gray market seller paid a fixed fee. Microsoft could stop this but with the side effect of blocking legitimate licenses. So they eat this cost.

If Microsoft decides to block this, $36 is not much to lose. But again why would you pay pretty much a pirate $36? Might as well download the bootleg for free. It's stupid to pay for a pirated copy.
Microsoft did make money by selling the original volume license. Don't you think it's far more likely that MS just agrees to look the other way when their volume customers are hit by economic downturns and don't need the full volume they licensed? You know that MS will be pushing volume towards their licensees when they're trying to make their sales targets for a quarter. This is just how business is done. Mutual back scratching
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I'll never understand people who get bent about this. IF it were a problem M$ would close that pipe. But more importantly, what kind of pedantic psycho chastises others over some line in a EULA being violated.

Bet these guys are fun at parties.
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