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BargainsGrabber on 09/06/2023 - 13:36 microsoft.com (4746 clicks)
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Seems like we’re reminding our OzBargainers these few days with our past long running deals. To those who are new to the community:

Students and educators at eligible institutions can sign up for Office 365 Education for free, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and now Microsoft Teams, plus additional classroom tools. Use your valid school email address to get started today.

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  • askbargain on 09/06/2023 - 13:37
    +3

    thanks for this. i was about to buy and then this deal definitely reminded me

  • Clear on 09/06/2023 - 13:42
    +4

    Careful you'll make a salty sod who cares about votes big time even more salty.

    • Guybrush57 on 09/06/2023 - 16:03

      Pray tell

      • Clear on 09/06/2023 - 16:04
        +1

        The same who ranted about how people who post game deals on OzBargain are the saltiest. Then proceeds to post game deals only.

        • Guybrush57 on 09/06/2023 - 16:16

          That cartoon office worker?

  • dasher86 on 09/06/2023 - 13:45

    Can anyone confirm your one drive access is linked to the school?

    • asa79 on 09/06/2023 - 13:46

      Same as teams would be

      • dasher86 on 09/06/2023 - 13:48
        -1

        just more wary of storing personal stuff on a schools one drive, as opposed to doing a teams call on an edu email.

        • asa79 on 09/06/2023 - 13:49
          +3

          Yep your data will be owned by the education department same as storing in. A business one drive

        • xoom on 09/06/2023 - 13:53
          +1

          Yes. No storing your linux iso here.

        • ChipsChicky on 10/06/2023 - 00:18

          One Drive is linked to your email id and data isn't shared by team. Each member has his own drive that he can access with his email.

          • [Deactivated] on 17/06/2023 - 07:00
            +1

            @ChipsChicky: If not mistaken on business OneDrive, administrator can take over the account and all associated data.

            Nonetheless, I agree data isn’t shared.

    • Lotto on 09/06/2023 - 20:41
      +2

      You can sign in with multiple accounts. For me, I sign in with my EDU email to activate the 356, and sign in to my personal ms account to store my docs.

      • ChipsChicky on 10/06/2023 - 00:19

        so you keep switching between both, whenever you have to save data? what about when you have to access it?

        • Lotto on 10/06/2023 - 21:23

          Nope. Because the files are saved in Onedrive. And microsoft office can access one personal onedrive and multiple school/business onedrive without switching roles. Assuming you have onedrive installed on you Mac or Windows.

  • asa79 on 09/06/2023 - 13:46
    -1

    Probably more a forum then a deal. Kinda like saying get a job that provides a laptop and you get a free office linked to the business.

    • Dan83 on 09/06/2023 - 15:20
      +3

      No it’s not.

  • ilovefullprice on 09/06/2023 - 13:47
    +3

    Does this needs to be renewed yearly?

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/06/2023 - 14:26

      Would also like to know

    • navidm58 on 09/06/2023 - 15:07
      +4

      Yes. I had this a few years ago but it was not on the dot from memory. Every year Microsoft checks the student status of your account and if it is no longer valid your subscription will stop working. so you might get a bit more than a year out of it.

  • the4thzodiac on 09/06/2023 - 13:56
    +1

    Web only right? No Desktop products?

  • Sammyboy on 09/06/2023 - 14:01
    +1

    Just need free Adobe Creative Cloud since my Via Privo / Nat Geo sub is expiring (today I think). Everyone that managed to sign up 2 years ago get the expiry email too?

    • Heiks9000 on 09/06/2023 - 14:05

      You can get that through some universities as well for free.

      • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 14:10

        The student price isn't too bad, $23 a month. Not too bad if you use most of the apps and are making money off them.

        • DigitalFurball on 09/06/2023 - 14:25

          Only for a year then its back to full price though

          • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 14:28
            +1

            @DigitalFurball: I just went to my account page and it offered me another 12 months. Doing the UTAS fee free online course, did a fee free tafe course last year. I guess I could do a fee free course next year to get another year under a new account, but actually some of these courses are actually pretty hard, don't know if I want to put in the time sink again just to save $20 a month on Adobe's post-student pricing tier.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/06/2023 - 14:27
      +2

      I found the turkey von price was a happy compromise

      • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 14:29

        How much is that?

        • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/06/2023 - 14:39
          +1

          been a while since i actually sat and verified it via my credit card statement but

          Student Monthly TL₺125.08 (~A$10.64), Standard Monthly TL₺187.62 (~A$15.96) @ Adobe)

          • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 14:49

            @Jimothy Wongingtons: Mmm that's pretty good. I treat accounts as disposable anyway, I don't use any of the cloud storage features because I know I'll start a new account. I've used other people's students emails, my own, got extensions on student pricing for years. I know I could pirate all the apps but that's kind of a hassle, plus I do use the iOS Adobe apps.

            • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/06/2023 - 15:09

              @AustriaBargain: i just made a throw away gmail for that acc anyway as want sure how much i would actually use adobe suite, the pro PDF is awesome for quick pdf edits and worth the money alone for me, and the new AI functions in photoshop are actually pretty awesome - I colourized a few black and white photos for my parents the other day and they were suitably impressed - how accurate it is im not sure… but i definitely do not have the skill/ patience to do it by hand manually. for $16 ish a month its not worth pirating imo

              • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 15:12

                @Jimothy Wongingtons: I've been using Photoshop for 20 years, used to pirate it as a kid, and slowly learn more each year. Pretty snails pace kind of learning but still learning more and more. I can't imagine using all free janky apps now, not to mention clients expect adobe file formats. You'll have access to InDesign, Illustrator, and AfterEffects too. They are all worth checking out. You can master them all just form YouTube tutorials and official documentation.

                • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/06/2023 - 15:31

                  @AustriaBargain: yeah after it went to CC though things kind of got kind of out of hand. Got bit more than a few times chasing the latest patches.

                  One of my goals of 2022 was to learn indesign via youtube..but well its mid 2023 and I didnt get around to it unfortunately :(

                  • AustriaBargain on 09/06/2023 - 15:53
                    +1

                    @Jimothy Wongingtons: InDesign is dead easy, easier than Illustrator and much easier than AfterEffects. Regular folk have been mastering InDesign for decades now when doing layouts for magazines and such. The paragraph and character styles are hard to wrap your head around but are a massive time saver when you do.

      • ngengerous on 09/06/2023 - 18:00

        Same boat here. I swore I'd leave Adobe for good once my free sub expired, but it's so hard to if everyone else around you relies on their products…

    • ngengerous on 09/06/2023 - 17:58

      I'm not alone! Recently installed my apps on a new PC and thought it must have been something I did to trigger my account being shuttered - looks like it's happened to everyone else too. We did very well though - almost 3 years of free access! I've ended up going the same route as Jimothy for access from now on, but damn the Privo deal was by far the best bargain I've ever snapped up in all my years here.

      Still trying to cling onto it though… I recently clicked the Verify Adobe Creative Cloud licence link again in the old email I received in 2020 - and then received another email advising me that I now have a CC licence again! Got excited before realising that it's only giving me Lightroom, Premiere Rush, and a handful of other smaller apps. Everything else has a 'Request Access' button next to it, so I requested Photoshop - will report back if I somehow get access again.

    • Indomietable on 09/06/2023 - 22:19
      +2

      Still rocking Adobe CS2 here! It's free and apparently it's legal.

      • yewman on 21/06/2023 - 22:06

        What are you photoshopping with that? Potato?

  • send2riven on 09/06/2023 - 14:05

    I not been able to log in to my child's edu email for weeks. WA primary school. There are no instructions on how to use the account or reset password, the school doesn't know much. Can anyone share some info on how to use the email?

    • chrism238 on 09/06/2023 - 14:27
      +4

      Your child is growing up, and has changed the password.

    • doobey1231 on 09/06/2023 - 14:58

      Gonna go out on a limb and say that your schools IT team is likely to be the only department that will be able to help you.

    • yyhazy on 09/06/2023 - 15:06

      When I was in university the IT folks required us to change our password every few months. If we did not do so before the deadline we would be unable to reset the password ourselves and would have to contact IT support. Does the school have a IT person?

  • OzComment on 09/06/2023 - 14:14
    +2

    Sorry…
    We can't finish signing you up.

    Your IT department has turned off signup for Office 365 Education. Contact them to complete signup.

    :((

    • slipperypete on 09/06/2023 - 15:26

      got this too….sends me to a page where I can use it online but not download

  • doobey1231 on 09/06/2023 - 14:57
    +1

    When I finished school we got to keep our laptops(although they were very slow even for the current software at the time, let alone 365 and windows 10/11). But the best part of it was we got a full suite of Microsoft office ultimate(or whatever the black box one was called) and it was a lifetime key. I still use it because I refuse to give into the subscription service.

  • yyhazy on 09/06/2023 - 15:20
    +1

    I was given access to office 365 which includes 1tb of onedrive storage as a university student. About 6 months after I finished the course, my access was revoked. I could still use the email address and access files previously uploaded to onedrive, but that was it.

  • yoquierotaco on 09/06/2023 - 15:21
    +3

    Not for everyone, but using Office on the web is free.
    LibreOffice is free and open source. Have not had issues with compatibility for my use case

  • bigbadboogieman on 09/06/2023 - 15:27
    +1

    Works for professional staff too who have a .edu.au email address.

  • ilovefullprice on 09/06/2023 - 15:28

    Damn it, I am a previous uni student and my uni has switched off signing up to Office 365 ☹️

  • Koipanda on 09/06/2023 - 15:33

    Any for adobe?

    • hasher22 on 09/06/2023 - 15:46

      The adobe hack is to sign up for student for the first year then cancel then sign up for student again the 2nd year with a new email (doesn't have to be a edu email). I've been doing this for the past 7 years. Adobe doesn't check student status the first year.

      The downfall is that you don't save your files to the cloud and don't get adobe portfolio cause that portfolio is linked to your account. But with adobe portfolio, when you cancel your account, the portfolio is still active for 3 months then you can request to transfer that portfolio to your new account, I did it for the first 3 account then they got sus and asked if I have multiple accounts….. then I decided not to use portfolio…

      • Koipanda on 09/06/2023 - 17:38

        Its just cheaper and not free?

        • hasher22 on 09/06/2023 - 19:07

          You'll rarely get adobe for free unless you download through torrents and crack it without internet but you'll get like 2015 version…..

          If you want latest adobe products, you will have to pay minimum $22 per month…. that's the cheapest youll get

          • borgainerz on 09/06/2023 - 20:00

            @hasher22: I work at uni and got it fo free using my edu email. Best part is that you're allowed to install and use it on one personal device as well.

            • hasher22 on 09/06/2023 - 20:15

              @borgainerz: Yes that's if you do have an edu email and you're in the industry so it's easy for you to get it.

              People pay dodgy sites for an edu email for like $5, I have done this and the edu email only lasted like 5 months.

              It seems Koipanda is not a student nor has an edu email, hence their question to try get it for free

  • cmyk on 09/06/2023 - 15:44

    Any for MS Windows

    • sav11 on 10/06/2023 - 16:38

      You can buy a Windows Pro license key for a few bucks, they're generally reselling volume licenses which they're not supposed to do but I've been using them for years with no problems. If you google cheap Windows license key you'll find them.

    • USER DC on 20/06/2023 - 01:54

      you can keep using Windows unlicensed. Its not that bad.
      But then again keys for windows 11 aren't too expensive.

      You might try a hack of like upgrading windows XP/7/Visa/8/8.1/ to Windows 10/Windows 11.

      Sometimes that works too (not sure how good that works now)

  • 11112007 on 09/06/2023 - 16:07
    +4

    Thanks to the free UTAS Tafe Courses i now have free uni email and Office for life :)

    • Geekbenchantutu on 09/06/2023 - 16:40

      Can you share which courses are free that allows to get .edu emails? Some courses I checked will work on my gma only and won't give .edu emails

  • michael9865 on 09/06/2023 - 18:09

    Any free courses i can do online but never finish to be always a student to fet this offer?

    • bcYield on 09/06/2023 - 18:27

      Any free office 365 license and lifetime?

      A: Welcome to Github

  • mertn on 10/06/2023 - 00:12
    +1

    This is like CBA's school kids dollarmites scam. Get them young with a freebee then charge them high for the rest of their lives.

  • imagine1437 on 10/06/2023 - 01:53

    Having trouble opening Word Doc in Office365, not sure why. Opened up fine with Google Doc with small formatting issue but easy fix.
    The documents were originally created using the MS Office, happened to me twice now. Puzzled.

  • CptnObvious on 10/06/2023 - 05:38
    +4

    How do I get this deal if I am not allowed within 200m of a school?

    • xoom on 10/06/2023 - 08:45
      +3

      Online learning is key.

      • CptnObvious on 10/06/2023 - 11:20

        It's good small misdemeanors are ignored in the virtual world.

    • McOzbargainer on 14/06/2023 - 06:56

      The new jv?

  • looster on 10/06/2023 - 09:36

    Good deal!

  • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2023 - 11:01

    Completed uni in the early 2000's can still get it free with my alumni email. Don't really care about MS anymore, got used to LibreOffice and Google Docs. They're good enough for my needs.

  • neonlight on 27/07/2023 - 19:32

    Does it work with primary public school email address?

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