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   Still isn't cheap enough!

   

   Techie Chick, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 3:47pm

   
   

   Who is Microsoft kidding? Starving college students who have a brain about them use OpenOffice, Abiword, Jarte, etc. Face it, you have $100-$150 extra bucks.. what are you going to buy? MS Office for students or food, clothes, etc!?

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   Greedy

   

   Jazzmyn, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 3:53pm

   
   

   Greedy sons of bitches.

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   Idiots. College give it out free

   

   Apennismightier, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 3:57pm

   
   

   If you go to any decent school, they give you Microsoft Office for free. You just have to accept it. And if not, there's always that one guy who knows a lot about computers in the dorms/frat houses. Pirated copies get around just fine in colleges if you don't want to use the labs.

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   Re: Still isn't cheap enough!

   

   USC college student, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 4:45pm

   
   

   While yes, there are college students who are starving, not ALL college students are starving college students. If that were the case, you would see much more :30min infomercials on college students rather than father-less African babies and Ethiopians.
   
   College students should be referred by as "creative" or even "innovative", not "helpless" or even "starving".

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   trojans

   

   tommy trojan, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 5:04pm

   
   

   fight on!

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   student software is very cheap.

   

   antiver, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 5:06pm

   
   

   I bought XP Pro sp2 for something like $16 USD and the bloated version of MS office for about $7 USD off my campus. If that's not cheap enough, damn. Although I do complement it with AbiWord, OpenOffice and linux.

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   Re: Re: Still isn't cheap enough!

   

   LKS2007, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 5:54pm

   
   

   I agree!

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   Re: Re: Still isn't cheap enough!

   

   lks2007, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 5:57pm

   
   

   I agree with the comment comparing college students to infomercials.

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   This is about greedy resellers

   

   Walking Dude, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 6:00pm

   
   

   This article is about wholesalers getting the student copies and then re-selling them to Internet retailers. This isn't about M$ turning a blind eye to the whole student discount thing. I think the summary mis-represented the actual article.

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    Straight From The Horse's Mouth

    

    Sean, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 6:09pm

    
    

    Having worked at a retail store that had Microsoft reps come in, I can tell you that I have actually had at least one of those reps encourage me to sell the academic version of MS Office to anyone willing to buy! Kind of strange to me that company policy seems to be changing now.

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    agreegree

    

    boomhauer (profile), Apr 5th, 2007 @ 6:27pm

    
    

    I agree with the agreeability

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    Re: agreegree

    

    Horkenforffer, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 7:33pm

    
    

    I am afirming your agreeance.

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    Anonymous Coward, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 8:14pm

    
    

    This is just proof that Microsoft makes plenty of money off of the Academic versions, and just gouges out of monopoly on the full retail. Justice department should hit them up again. Id really like to see MS get broken up

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    Fat Grad, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 8:24pm

    
    

    I was a starving college student who was actually skinny.. until I graduated and started making good money!!!!

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    Re:

    

    DictionaryMuch?, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 8:59pm

    
    

    "...just gouges out of monopoly on the full retail." You can't call it 'monopoly' in the same comment section that names at least three alternatives to the product. obviously there is some sort of competetive product.

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    Re: student software is very cheap.

    

    Joe, Apr 5th, 2007 @ 9:11pm

    
    

    There are two possible reasons why it's so cheap:
    
    1.) MS sells it to the colleges cheap, in order to help discourage piracy, and for brand recognition (to build up consumer loyalty or whatever it's called, so the students will continue to buy MS products after they graduate).
    
    2.) Most or all of the cost of the software is included in your tuition costs

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