Microsoft Office Discount

After you have used up your trial copy of Office, you can get a huge Microsoft Office discount at Amazon.com on the Office Home and Business Edition for installation on up to 2 computers. This version usually costs $279 but can be had at Amazon.com for only $219 and you can download it right now to your computer and install it immediately, no waiting.

With Office Home and Business Edition your get Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Outlook 2010 for your email needs, PowerPoint 2010 for all those presentations you need to do and OneNote. The discount price of $219 is a lot cheaper than you will find it at your local Office Depot because they sell it there for the suggested retail price of $279 plus, you will be paying taxes of $16 or more on top of that. When you download it at Amazon.com, there is no shipping, no taxes and no waiting.

There are all kinds of uses for the software in Office 2010 such as writing professional letters or company reports for your business or where you work, keeping track of your appointments and email in Outlook 2010, keeping track of all your expenses, taxes (you know that’s coming up soon) and income by using Microsoft Excel, and creating those all important presentations that your boss needs or that you may need to get funding for your small business or to make a sale of your products to interested customers.

Not only do your get the instant delivery from Amazon.com, you never have to worry about losing your software when you purchase from Amazon. While you may lose your software package when it comes in a package mailed to your home or if you buy it at a store, you will never lose it when you make a purchase from Amazon. Once you make a purchase of software from Amazon, it will forever be in your Software Library and if you lose it or need to restore your computer, it will always be there. All you have to do is download it again.

Get your discount copy of Microsoft Office from Amazon here.

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Microsoft Office


If you are a computer user today, chances are that you have used some component of Microsoft Office. Being that Office is the most widely used software suite of programs on Earth (and has made Bill Gates fabulously wealthy) there is almost no one on in the world, that has a computer, that has not at least received a file from or used a program in Microsoft Office.

The software suite was released in August of 1989 making it some 22.5 years old and still going. While there are a few more programs available in the current 2010 version of Office, when it initially came out it only contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint which are still part of the package today. Probably on of the reasons it is so widely used today is that it is available in more than 35 languages worldwide which probably covers 90% of the world’s population.

Office is available on both Windows and Mac operating systems however, there are a few less components available on the Mac versions. The current individual products available in both operating systems include Office, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Other components of the software suite include, Microsoft Access, InfoPath, OneNote, Publisher, Visio and a few more minor programs that are only available on the Windows operating system.

Depending on what combination of products you get within Office and whether you are a student or an office worker who wants to use it on more than one computer, it will cost you anywhere from $119 to $499. Of course you can always get the Microsoft Office 2010 trial and use it for 60 days for free to see if you like it. And then beyond that you can even use the free trial for 180 days by getting the Office Trial Extender and rearm it 5 more times for another 30 days each time.

Office is being used by more than 750 million people worldwide and currently sells at the rate of one copy per second. Now that’s an insane amount of revenue for just one product. Anyway, if you want to at least try out the best selling software package in the world, get a trial download of the Microsoft Office software suite.

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Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Extender


So, you have the a trial copy of Microsoft Office 2010, with Word, Excel, and all the other goodies and your 60 day free trial is about to expire and you just don’t feel like you have had enough time to really get into the programs. What are you going to do? You aren’t ready to buy yet, but you sure would like to use Office 2010 for a little longer.

Your solution is the Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Extender which allows you to use your copy of the Office trial for up to 180 days. The software that is included in the free trial version of Office 2010 is Word 2010, Excel 2010, Powerpoint 2010 and OneNote 2010. You can also get a trial version of Access and Publisher if you download the Office Professional 2010 version, but I don’t think that you can use the Office Trial extender on that version. There is only one version the extender will work on and it is version RTM Microsoft Office (RTM: 14.0.4760.1000) so make sure you download the correct product if you are expecting the trial extender to work.

How to Use Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Extender

It is very easy to use the trial extender for Microsoft Office 2010. All you have to do is download it, install it on your computer after you have installed the Microsoft Office Trial on your hard drive. Once it is installed, you need to wait for up to 30 days since you have started using your trial version of Microsoft Office and then use the trial extender to rearm the Microsoft Trial. Every 30 days you need to rearm your Microsoft Office Trial again and you can use this process to rearm the Microsoft Trial for up to 5 times. The extension is good for 30 days and 30 x 6 = 150 plus your original trial of 30 days for a total of 180 days.

It is slightly confusing because the Office trial is really good for 60 days to begin with, but every set of instructions I can find for the Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Extender says to rearm Office before 30 days is up, not 60. So it’s probably best to follow those instructions and be sure you will have your free trial of the Microsoft Office set of productivity tools for 180 days instead of just 60 days.

I’m sure that by after 180 days using this set of Microsoft products you will probably have a pretty good idea as to whether you want to buy it or not. My guess is that you will more than likely go ahead and purchase at least the home version of Office.

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