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Can anyone verify that this is a genuine buy?
Office Professional 2016 from Digital Software Planet for AU $160
Advice/Feedback very gratefully received. Thanks!
Link: https://www.digitalsoftwareplanet.com/collections/microsoft-…
elusive ~ Thanks so much. Any ideas where I can get a genuine copy from at a great price. Not eligible for the HUP program, as I am not working at the moment.
If you want fully genuine, your best bet is Office 365 (subscription). There's a pretty good deal for uni students too. It's cheaper to get a subscription pack from Officeworks w/ price beat rather than full price on MS website. There's usually a $20 rebate period once a year; search OzB.
If you must have a perpetual licence there aren't really many legit deals. Do you really need the Pro programs (Publisher, Access)? Home 2016 is much cheaper. You can get these at the usual stores - look it up on http://staticice.com.au and maybe get Officeworks to price beat.
If you just want a cheap key but don't care about legality (not-really-genuine) you can find resold HUP keys, e.g. at /r/microsoftwareswap on Reddit. I would not recommend this approach - legally, you're probably not in a much better position than outright pirating. I suppose some plausible deniability in that those keys are never claimed as HUP, but at those prices… yea…
If you want cheap, LibreOffice is a possible alternative. It's free and quite popular, but I didn't like it that much when I last used it (5 years ago though). There's also Google Apps/Drive.
Personally? I'm on a O365 Home (5 licences, ProPlus suite) subscription. I think it was about $70/yr after shopping around and rebates.
Probably Home Use Program keys. IIRC these come up as retail in most checks but:
against T&C to resell - technically you don't have a legal licence, even though it activates fine
apparently Microsoft has deactivated all HUP keys linked to specific companies before when they have detected reselling
if they really are HUP keys, you are way overpaying at $160. HUP keys typically get resold for under 50 USD.