{"id":43,"date":"2010-03-17T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:15:09","slug":"the_ultimate_steal_and_the_office_2010_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Steal and the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Microsoft announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/office2010.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/tech-guarantee\/microsoft-office-2010-technology-guaranteeunited-kingdom-FX101829423.aspx\">Office 2010 Technology Guarantee<\/a>, which says that if you purchase and activate Office 2007 between now and the end of September, you&#8217;ll get a free upgrade to <a href=\"http:\/\/office2010.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/\">Office 2010<\/a> when it is released.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for students is that same guarantee applies to purchasing Office today via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/student\/discounts\/theultimatesteal-uk\/default.aspx\">The Ultimate Steal<\/a> offer for only \u00c2\u00a338.95<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/student\/discounts\/theultimatesteal-uk\/default.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/student\/discounts\/theultimatesteal-uk\/images\/logo_topleft.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve been happily using the <a href=\"http:\/\/us2.office2010beta.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?culture=en-US\">Office 2010 Beta<\/a> for a few months, so if you&#8217;re looking to install Office on your own computer, you may want to give that a try. Performance and stability wise, it feels like a finished product.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/2010\/en\/default.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/2010\/images\/Logo_MSFTOffice2010_187x54.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want a bit more information about Office 2010, you may want to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/blogs\/index.php\/wit\/2009\/12\/15\/first_look_at_office_2010\">my previous post<\/a> for a free &#8220;First Look&#8221; ebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Microsoft announced their Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, which says that if you purchase and activate Office 2007 between now and the end of September, you&#8217;ll get a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it is released. The good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}