Microsoft is showing a tremendous amount of foresight and ingenuity by offering MSFT Office 2007 to students for a gargantuan 91% discount, $60.  Yep, that’s right.  I had to cross-check this a few ways, but it’s true.

Here is the press release, here is the site.  The promotion is called The Ultimate Steal, I am not sure if that’s a play on words, but indeed, it is a helluva steal.  I sent a link to my younger brother, who just started college.  The program was piloted in Australia and is now open to residents of the USA, Canada, the UK.

As such, I don’t think this was a direct result of Google/CapGemini’s recent deal, but it’s a direct result of the trend that Google has unleashed and MSFT is today showing that it won’t stand still.

God bless competition…

Memo to Record Labels: this is how you fight piracy.

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