[GUI-Talk] I'm Having a Dilemma with Microsoft Office

[Raul Gallegos (NFB)]

Hello. Have you considered getting your own Office 365 subscription? 
although Microsoft will happily sell you one at full retail price, which 
usually costs around $70 for one person or $99 for a family account up to 
five, puryear, you can often find discounted key codes from places like 
eBay and Amazon. For example, for the last several years I have purchased 
the 365 subscription 5 user account pack, normally $99 per year, for the 
cost of between 50 and $70 per year. So that is a substantial savings and 
if you have family or friends that you share it with, you can do so 
legally, and perhaps everyone can go in on the purchase making it even 
cheaper. It is well worth of the 365 subscription not only for the latest 
versions of The Office programs, and also because you get 1tb of OneDrive 
space. This is way better than what you get with Dropbox, who has recently 
started charging people if they sign in with more than three devices. with 
the 365 subscription, you can sign in on up to five devices on one 
Microsoft account, and that is not even including the fact that you can 
share it with other Microsoft accounts. I hope this helps.

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Raul A. Gallegos
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On September 23, 2019 9:18:29 PM Humberto Avila via GUI-Talk 
<gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello there fellow listers:
>
> I am having a situation that needs serious contemplations of options. Maybe 
> someone on this list on similar situation may help.
>
> I am, or rather, was, a student in college. One of the many many perks of 
> being at the university where I did my studies was that we get to enjoy 
> free copies and version upgrades of Microsoft office apps through an 
> office365 subscription set up through the school. I have since graduated 
> last December 2018 and well, all of a sudden, they decide that I no longer 
> am in their system, apparently.
>
> Starting this weekend, as soon as I opened Outlook or any other office apps 
> I kept getting this notice that I needed to either enter a license key or 
> sign in. I signed in, but well, every time I opened outlook again and 
> signed in, but over and over I got that same old message that my product 
> was “deactivated” and kept seeing this text in the lines of, “You have 
> chosen to convert your | 0 software.” Seeing the strangeness of this deal I 
> went ahead to reinstall office apps on my laptop again, and there it was, I 
> had no longer privileged access to office through my school / work account 
> I used previously.
>
> Having said this, how many of ya folks in here actually use Word, Excel or 
> Outlook email app for personal usage? Would it be worth it to purchase an 
> actual office365 subscription for my own use? Should I wait till I get a 
> fulltime job (Which most likely I will have access to Office apps and such)?
>
> I’m certainly aware there are other accessible apps that work well with 
> screen readers like JAWS. I also certainly the professionalism and 
> efficiency delivered through apps like Outlook, which I have been 
> constantly (and subconciously) been using to manage my email and calendar 
> for years.
>
> At any rate, what are your thoughts on this? Should I start using and 
> learning free alternatives like Thunderbird to do my emailing? Should I 
> shell out the $69.99 or so just to get my Outlook up and running again? How 
> many of you use this email program as their personal / default app on your 
> PCS? When you need to write something, apart from using a smartphone or 
> quick note-jotting like Notepad, would you actually prefer something like 
> Word or Excel, as aposed to Google Docs or, say, OpenOffice?
>
> Suggestions are welcome. And, thanks in advance. I hope this didn’t go too 
> much off topic.
>
> Humberto
>
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