From $149 to $75 (50% off coupon code) for a year subscription of Microsoft 365 Personal. RRP is $179 at competitors stores. Only 200 in stock. Limit of 2 units per customer.
Comes out to $6.25 per month for 1TB of OneDrive storage. Hard to find a better deal for the amount of cloud storage you get.
+1 for github for Office and Windows activation.
Someone help me out, explain like I’m five. I need an excel license on a new PC.
Thanks in advance
It's a mass grave of solutions out there.
@Kiwi: Nice joke, but doesn't really help someone asking for help, who doesn't know the reference.
Vish - Google "office free activation github" to get the reference
You could also use Libre Office, its free and opens Word/Excel documents, its pretty good but depends on what you need it for.
@Vinny: Just everything excel can do really, there is no substitute for the OG.
Thanks though, the method above worked a treat
Only annoying thing is that office 2024 doesn’t do stock prices but nothing some VBA code can’t fix
Gamers-Outlet have a search……
Is pcloud any good for android? Currently using google storage that comes with YouTube premium. Just wondering if there are better alternatives out there
Yeah, works fine, but depends on what your requirements are. I'd suggest just try out the trial and test it before you buy.
Cloud storage aside, I always wonder what the overlap of personal m365 users who don't have a work license is.
Everything I've ever wanted to do with m365 has been work or uni related so I've never felt an urge to buy my own license
Good point. Now that you mentioned it, all the jobs I've worked at provided a M365 license to all the users. So yeah, you could just use that.
And if your company pays for MSDN or Visual Studio Pro licenses, you could create a free M365 Dev account that's tied/associated with it. That tenant is then free from all the MDM policies and restrictions and you could then get 5TB of OneDrive storage (via Sharepoint Admin Center) for free. As long as you're assigned the MSDN/Visual Studio Pro license, i.e as long as you're still working for the company, then the dev tenant is completely in your control and management and you'll continue to have access to the features that the dev tenant offers. It's not just the 5TB OneDrive, but you get E5 licenses and I think Entra P1/P2 licenses, I can't remember. There are some good perks that come with it.
So if you're someone who thinks you might stay in your current company for 5~10 years, that's guaranteed 5TB of storage for that amount of time.
Haha I'm in a public role and our licenses are all under review so zero chance I could snag an e5.
Probably for the best. Paying for e3s for a user account that's used as a shared mailbox is bananas
@Frisky Grandma: I think you're confusing 2 different things.
I mentioned that to create a M365 Dev tenant, you'll need to have a Visual Studio Pro subscription. Let's say you work for Company X and they pay for this subscription for 10 employees, including you. Now, your primary work email will have this subscription. But as a bonus to this, you can now create a new M365 Developer account that is associated to the VS Pro subscription. When you create the dev tenant, you're literally the admin of that tenant. You have a .onmicrosoft.com domain and everything within that tenant, including the Sharepoint/OneDrive and Exchange Online are all under your admin's control. That also means any licenses, including the free E3/35 and Entra licenses within that tenant, are strictly within that tenant. No one else in your company can access it.
The whole point of a M365 Developer account is so that MS grants developers certain tools to help them bootstrap and get started quickly. That's why some of those licenses are literally offered as a free service.
@Karens Hate Winners: Oh I gotcha.
Yup zero chance I could snag a license for that either. I get vscode and I get…. Vscode….
It's great to not have an ide!
The bonus i guess is tbat the tools I make on the weekend (as a contractor) get to stay mine when I leave. The negative is I don't get to make tooling on the job with much ease.
@Frisky Grandma: Don't confuse VS Code or Visual Studio with Visual Studio Pro subscription. The sub is just named that way but it used to be called MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network). It's just a subscription that you pay for to get benefits. Usually, it's for people who work in Azure (like myself) who get $80~$100 free monthly credits (subsidized by the company). Whether you're someone who uses VS Code or VS Studio as an IDE don't matter.
$1 per month for family sub (6 x 1TB). Need ipad/iphone to setup intially though.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/903661
Pcloud is great, it's like Dropbox alternative, I've used it for 7+ years,
its got branding functions too, I use it mainly for my photography business, where i brand my folders that i share with my clients.
It's also got a desktop and phone app, and I think it's pretty secure, I've never ran into any issues with it, and it's only gotten better over the years.
It was an investment for me deciding weather i should buy a portable SSD or buy Pcloud lifetime 2TB, I pulled the trigger on Pcloud and never looked back.
Just because it has those extra functions that benefitted me in the long run.
(I hate OneDrive with a passion, just because of the syncing function it is the worse out of any cloud storage platform i've used, even though i have lots of storage on it I don't bother with it, I'm on a Mac it literally slows everything down…)
Damn, was just about to purchase, then sold out it seems.
They have this one at $129 using the same discount code.
https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/OFFMST1150/Microsoft-365-Pe…
Listed with a slightly different product code.
It's back in stock! Shipping next week.
https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/OFFMST1150L/Microsoft-365-P…
What I do is buy m365 personal - and I just upgrade to family each time - pro rata gives about 9 months of family subscription per annum.
What I do is buy m365 personal - and I just upgrade to family each time - pro rata gives about 9 months of family subscription per annum.
I've never tried or seen that approach myself.
Do you mean there no dollar cost to upgrade, and it just chops out 3 months (or so) of the subscription?
Yep, you get the prorata. I just buy personal and stack it — every time I apply it, it adds another nine months.
… every time I apply it, it adds another nine months.
Adds?? Wow!
I'm trying to sort my mess out at the moment. Gone with lifetime of koofr and using a pair of local boxes to back up files between them then up to koofr as an off-site. Koofr seems ok but slow, as a backup in a pinch it'll be fine though and it was pretty reasonable for the 1TB lifetime plan.
i think amazing for people who cant live without m665, i migrated to google docs at college that was like 18 years ago never looked back. some times also zoho docs
Recently started using sliverbullet and Obsidian and they are nice with mega for file sycing ,
On my linux machine very offen i will use libre office its not bad . I have also tried next cloud which is alright .
for people who cant afford i dont mind learning things SIT offers fully office 365 it also active for long duration even if you pause your course
I never really understood why people pay for certain subscriptions. In general, you don't own anything and you'll just keep on paying for it, unless you want to lose your data in cloud storage.
Aside from OneDrive, you can get Windows and the entire Office suite for free, if you know where to look. Plenty of projects on Github that can help you with that and they're safe too. Haven't needed to activate Windows or Office for the past 20+ years.
As for cloud storage, if you were on the bandwagon a few years ago and got yourself a M365 Developer account, then you would have access to 5TB of OneDrive for free (including certain licenses like M365 E3/E5). I have 2 of these and they're both free, totalling 10TB for me.
Then there's pCloud lifetime, which I also own. It's a bit pricey but when they do promotions, they're somewhat affordable. Right now, they're doing a promotion for 2TB lifetime for $399 USD, which is about $689 NZD. OneDrive costs $75/year (according to OP's $6.25/month x 12). Based on this, pCloud will take about 9.2 years to become cheaper than OneDrive. But bear in mind it's 2TB and 9.2 years isn't that long. I've had pCloud lifetime for over 10 years now, and I paid way less than $399 USD at the time and broke even in about 6.7 years. Not sure about their reviews now, but last time I checked they were pretty decent and I haven't had issues with them.
If you can find them at $250~$350 USD, it's a really good deal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcloud/comments/1hep5xs/what_has_be…
If you're going to use cloud storage, chances are you won't be using it for just a few months or a few years, otherwise what's the point? So if you're going to own one, why get something that is ultimately going to cost you more in the long term?
And if you really want to save money, get a NAS, they're easy to setup these days and you can access them remotely with ease. Plenty of solutions these days.