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Just in time for mid-term exams, or for the few students who actually work<\/i> during Spring Break, Microsoft offers a suite -- ah, sweet -- deal on Office 365. Not coincidentally, the offer carries many, if not most, in higher ed through the end of the school year. <\/p>\n
Microsoft's\u00a0Jeff Meisner explains: \"Starting today, college students in the U.S. can get three months of\u00a0Office 365 University<\/a> and 20 GB of SkyDrive storage for free\". <\/p>\n In January, Microsoft launched Office 365 Home Premium<\/a>. The University edition is slightly less full-featured, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, which are likely the only apps that are really important to students anyway, although I am sure some would not mind having access to Publisher. Office 365 University does, at least, include the same 20GB of free SkyDrive space that comes with a subscription to the Home plan.<\/p>\n In addition to offering the three free months, Microsoft adds an additional three months if the student shares the offer on Facebook -- talk about pleading for viral marketing. Customers will need to provide a valid .EDU address to qualify and, according to the terms, \"This Offer commences at 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Savings Time on March 11, 2013 and all Offer redemptions must be made via the Offer Site by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on May 12, 2013 or while supplies last at which time the Offer ends. Redemption codes must be used no later than May 12, 2014\".<\/p>\n While I am not exactly sure how supplies of a downloaded program can run out or why Microsoft waited until now to makes this offer, given that we are approaching the end of the school year, but it is still a good deal for a segment of Office users who frequently cannot afford to shell out the normal cost for software such as this.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Goodluz<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Just in time for mid-term exams, or for the few students who actually work during Spring Break, Microsoft offers a suite — ah, sweet — deal on Office 365. Not coincidentally, the offer carries many, if not most, in higher ed through the end of the school year. Microsoft’s\u00a0Jeff Meisner explains: “Starting today, college students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Qu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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