Buying the software for

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use on YOUR computer

As a student, you can get Office 365 for $80 for 4 years (version coverage):

Also available at the Campus store, same price:

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What happens at 4-year expiration?
- If fat-client installs, do they continue working (frozen at the version you last updated to when you were within the 4-year term), and just access to MS Live gets cut off?

Office 2013 at the Campus store - $140

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Historical note: The Campus store used to (recently!) sell Office (Office 2010) for $40. That's a big change in price!

If employee-type grad students (not all CU grads, but all CCB grads) get staff access legally, this would be an option.

Here are the 2 steps the eligible Grad would have to take:

1) Obtain the Microsoft Home Use Program Code.

Ideal: Get their NetIDs added to CU's access to the CIT-hosted page.
Non-ideal, but possible: Have dept. Contact ChemIT. (Future: Have PatH's office gate access to the Code ? Provide to to eligible grad students, as clarified by this process.
- In CCB, this might might be ChemIT. And/ or PatH's office. And or each Research Group's IT Representative. Or some other gating mechanism?
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2) Purchase Microsoft Office Employee Home Use Program License. Link to purchase available at:

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