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.
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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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Like you can 'borrow' a game, software, or a movie that expires and you no longer own it.
This so called offer is betting on people using it for a while (1 yr) put alot of data on it and then lock it up so if they need access they have to pay more money.
It's another Too Big to Fail businesses that Microsoft has evolved into doing anything and everything that makes them suck up the money in the economy.
Can you explain how you did that?
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