Microsoft offering Office 2007 for rent on a monthly basis

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Since there are multiple versions of Office 2007 available the worthiness of the deal is debatable. Office 2007 Home and Student edition is $114 on Newegg.com which the 28.54 for 3 months rental price after a year saves you about 7 dollars. If we are talking Office 2007 Standard then you would have paid for the full software after 2 years of the rental price and then it becomes worth it if MS comes out with a new version at that point and you wish to upgrade right away, for Office 2007 Pro at that rental price it is worth it since it would be 4 years before you have paid the price for that product and by then you most likely will be on the next version based on MS upgrade cycles for Office.

That being said OpenOffice is still a better option if price is your reason for renting the software and you don't absolutely need MS Office for a specific reason.

Posted by: jfp   Posted on: 07/17/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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