Office 2008
I have a home use offer from my company—in agreements with Microsoft, in which, I could purchase Office 2008 for €30.- This, they say, is the cost of shipping. (It’s $20.- in the USA, but since we’re in Europe, we pay more.)
This offer comes in the wake of preparing me along with 100,000+ employees to brace for the imminent change—Windows Vista, and MS Office 2007, which roll onto our work notebooks within the next 3-12 months.
I have decided to take it, and hope that Microsoft delivers on its promise. This would enable me to exchange documents I create—between my Macbook and my Ubuntu running desktop—without loss of fidelity.
Update [22.8]: Here it is. I received the package yesterday.
The fun part, though, was the number of updates to it. SP1 (12.1.0) was 183MB, and then there was 12.1.1, which was ~160MB; and then just when I thought I was done, there was yet another update 12.1.2—another ~160MB. These updates are not for the faint internet connections!