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Microsoft offers Verified College Students: 12 Months of Microsoft 365 Personal (New Accounts only) for Free.
Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.
Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.
Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- Offer ends October 31 or while supplies last.
- Use your college or university email address to verify your student status and sign up to get 12 free months, plus save over 50% on the regular price of Microsoft 365 Personal going forward.
- 12-month free offer is only available to college student users who are not currently Microsoft 365 Personal student offer subscribers.
- After 12 months, you will continue to be charged the applicable monthly subscription fee unless you cancel in your Microsoft account. A payment instrument is required to sign up.
- Refer to the original post & forum comments for additional details & discussion.
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Microsoft offers Verified College Students: 12 Months of Microsoft 365 Personal (New Accounts only) for Free.
Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.
Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Thanks to Community Member TomB4719 for posting this deal.
Note: Microsoft 365 Personal includes productivity apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, 1TB of cloud storage, and advanced security for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- Offer ends October 31 or while supplies last.
- Use your college or university email address to verify your student status and sign up to get 12 free months, plus save over 50% on the regular price of Microsoft 365 Personal going forward.
- 12-month free offer is only available to college student users who are not currently Microsoft 365 Personal student offer subscribers.
- After 12 months, you will continue to be charged the applicable monthly subscription fee unless you cancel in your Microsoft account. A payment instrument is required to sign up.
- Refer to the original post & forum comments for additional details & discussion.
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Microsoft 365 Personal here is mainly a 1TB OneDrive play, with the full Office apps, Copilot, device sign in on up to five devices, and ad free email as extras. Enrollment appears to need only an .edu address for verification, and the license can stack in some cases or run through 2030. The free year can be followed by $5 per month, which is framed as a solid price for the storage. The main catch is that school email access can disappear after graduation, and the offer may not work for every existing account.
Students who want a year of cloud backup, because it includes 1TB of storage and can continue at $5 a month afterward.
Students with an .edu address but no identity verification, because enrollment appears to need only email verification.
College seniors about to graduate, because signing up near the end of school can preserve the full 12 months from that point.
People who want to stack a free year onto an existing subscription, because the offer can stack with a different student email.
Graduates who may lose school email access, because eligibility can disappear when the .edu address is revoked or stops working.
People expecting Microsoft apps to replace Google Docs for complex spreadsheets, because formulas, macros, and conversions can break.
Anyone who needs reliable desktop Office access on a new laptop, because the license may only work through the web option on some devices.
People trying to add this to an existing Microsoft 365 account, because stacking may fail or require a different account.
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My uni took away my old .edu email address after parting. Farewell college days.
One of my alma's gave out *.edu emails for alums. That seems to be pretty common for larger universities. I don't use it except for deals that require one to be a student LOL
The university I attended hasn't changed their policy yet, but given the trend of other universities, I see it coming soon.
Very few college students use Microsoft 365, they're all on Google Workspace apps instead. Microsoft fumbled this specific market tremendously.
my condolences to them. we were forced to use google crapware. google sheets are a joke.
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the formulas dont convert very well, and sheets messes up the conversion. every. single. time.
sounds like user error
This is a very common application in the real biz world
Google has a 2TB plan for $10/mo (3 month intro @ 50%)
idrive is $10/yr for 500GB
Sure there are places that offer trials and you could hop around but there's value in not having to do that plus getting a decent price and not dealing with shady startups.
I don't work with Sheets a lot; it appears to work OK for basic sheets but when you get into more advanced work (VBA, macros, etc) it simply doesn't work for the application. Heck, I created a very simple XLSX in Excel with some spin buttons and upon uploading that to google (the entire purpose was to make it easy to pull up on a phone and toggle a cell up/down) stripped that functionality.
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Very few college students use Microsoft 365, they're all on Google Workspace apps instead. Microsoft fumbled this specific market tremendously.
my condolences to them. we were forced to use google crapware. google sheets are a joke.
I may just be old-fashioned here, but I'm not at all a fan of Docs/Sheets/Slides. They just feel like a product that people say works great because it's free, so they want to make themselves believe it works well. And I don't say this as some sort of Microsoft shill either. I mostly use Apple products for all of my tech needs, but Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are all inferior to Office as well (though still a bit better than the products that Google offers).
This isn't even office 365 it's a desktop only version from 2024. No real deal here.
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