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.
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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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