Posted: 7/30/2025 10:08:40 AM EDT
| My employer has decide to cheap out and switch to Google, and is deactivating our Office 365 licenses this week. A lot of my work requires extensive Excel work, and Google Sheets just doesn't do the job as well. LibreOffice's equivalent isn't nearly as good, either. I'm using a personal device and would like to just buy a non-subscription Office license that includes Word and Excel. Where does one go to get legitimate licenses for a good price? |
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I bought a license off Stack Social a year or two ago and it still works fine. https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/the-ultimate-microsoft-office-professional-2021-for-windows-lifetime-license-windows-11-pro-bundle-3?srsltid=AfmBOorgArwyq93p7NBO8RNNM6C7facxPhGWMQQpc_4Ljxs5uoIXtYbG |
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Originally Posted By CFletch: My employer has decide to cheap out and switch to Google, and is deactivating our Office 365 licenses this week. A lot of my work requires extensive Excel work, and Google Sheets just doesn't do the job as well. LibreOffice's equivalent isn't nearly as good, either. I'm using a personal device and would like to just buy a non-subscription Office license that includes Word and Excel. Where does one go to get legitimate licenses for a good price? Microsoft is insane on license pricing! |
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Woot.com has a few different editions for varying prices. Professional plus is $26. https://computers.woot.com/offers/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2021z-2?utm_medium=share&;utm_source=app" target="_blank">Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 - $25.99 - Free shipping https://computers.woot.com/offers/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2021z-2?utm_medium=share&;utm_source=app |
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Everything linked above, and anything you are going to find for more than a few percent off of retail price are not legit licenses. They are fine for home use, as Microsoft really doesn't give a shit about home users, but you absolutely should not use them in a business. You are opening that business to liability and huge fines. Tell your boss they need to pay up for Office, if that is what you need to do your job, or make due with what they provide. |
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I have a business account with CDW so I just order licenses there. https://www.cdw.com/product/microsoft-office-professional-plus-license-1-device/3691269 |
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Originally Posted By jeremy223: Tell your boss they need to pay up for Office, if that is what you need to do your job, or make due with what they provide. This. You should not be spending your own money in something like this. The business needs to know the impact of their decisions, be it positive or something less. |
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Originally Posted By ZF-1: This. You should not be spending your own money in something like this. The business needs to know the impact of their decisions, be it positive or something less. Agree. If a tool affects production (and profitability,) a case can be made to justify it's purchase. |
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Originally Posted By ZF-1: This. You should not be spending your own money in something like this. The business needs to know the impact of their decisions, be it positive or something less. Originally Posted By ZF-1: Originally Posted By jeremy223: Tell your boss they need to pay up for Office, if that is what you need to do your job, or make due with what they provide. This. You should not be spending your own money in something like this. The business needs to know the impact of their decisions, be it positive or something less. |
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| A place I used to work at experimented with OpenOffice, and the experiment failed. Any time a power user encountered an issue they couldn't work around, they tied up the helpdesk and swamped them with service requests. The transition and loss of productivity cost more than it saved. They bit the bullet and switched back to MS Office. |
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Originally Posted By ZF-1: This. You should not be spending your own money in something like this. The business needs to know the impact of their decisions, be it positive or something less. Originally Posted By Moondog: Agree. If a tool affects production (and profitability,) a case can be made to justify it's purchase. Originally Posted By Moondog: A place I used to work at experimented with OpenOffice, and the experiment failed. Any time a power user encountered an issue they couldn't work around, they tied up the helpdesk and swamped them with service requests. The transition and loss of productivity cost more than it saved. They bit the bullet and switched back to MS Office. I am expected to deliver the same stuff regardless of how bad the software is, so it's worth $70 or so to save me a ton of time and effort trying to make good deliverables with sub-par tools. Besides, I use Office constantly in my personal life so having the (legit) license will be useful regardless. |
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Originally Posted By bnoji: I have a business account with CDW so I just order licenses there. https://www.cdw.com/product/microsoft-office-professional-plus-license-1-device/3691269 And as for most of the other suggestions, those are just paying for illegitimate keys. Not sure why you'd give any amount of money for illegitimate software that you could get for free. |
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Didn't read all the posts, but I've bought a few licenses from StackSocial. One was Windows 11 and about 3 Office 2021 Pro lifetime. |
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