Ultimate Steal
While we’re on the subject of good value, I was reminded of The Ultimate Steal: Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate at the price of £38.95 for students and staff at academic institutions.
That's a pretty good deal: I’m a OneNote junkie so IMHO this is worth the cash for that alone, leaving aside Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Groove, InfoPath, Publisher and Outlook. Add a little Mesh, and a little Office Live Workspaces and I’m happy.
Back in my day, I blew £1500 on a 486 DX/2 50 PC from Dixons only to discover that Uni had no dial up access, and I couldn’t get my hands on compilers for PoP-11. I became good at Solitaire. Happy days.
