That's yer lot - 31st March.
Hmmmm, Can I go back to primary school? Think I went wrong somewhere....
That's yer lot - 31st March.
Hmmmm, Can I go back to primary school? Think I went wrong somewhere....
But they are always having offers, and sometimes I think its a bit likeDFS who always have a sale for furniture. They tend to announce the end of offers and then suddenly come out with a new one. Its a ploy to get sales through a traditionally lean period in the year.
Brian
Not by SFS. The end of the discounts is a Microsoft thing and affects other suppliers too.
Well all I can say is that I was offered a discount nothing to do with students on Office 2010 after downloading the demo. I thin noticed that PC World actually had it on sale cheaper than the offer!
It does make you think really, what are they actually selling it for to the retailers. I suppose if they undercut them it would mean that they might not get orders afterwards. I nver bought it in the end as it really offered no more useful features to me than Office XP, and was harder to use as well. Brian
Mentioned before but maybe worth repeating - U3A membership counts as being a student for MS products (but not Adobe's).
That's a bit different - the NHS thing was use at home rights. It extended the deal the NHS had to allow use at home as well. NHS stopped their agreement so home rights also stopped.
The software for students thing is a licence to use at home - it's not controlled by a corporate sub like the NHS one was.
Darren
Do they offer any courses on Linux ?
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Exactly correct. If anyone is to 'blame' it is NHS management for not explaining the agreement properly to their staff. Similar arrangements (ie the tenner deal) are available to education too. It is made clear that the rights only extend to running the products at home for work-related use. If anyone actually did that, the take-up would be zero, of course: "If you want me to work at home, then you will supply me with the software and a computer - I am not going to wear my own computer out or pay for any software, why should I?"
In that case it should have been free, or the NHS should have paid for it, not the employees. I'm surprised they didn't, spending money with nothing to show for it is the NHS' prime directive.
It was free, if you had the media, you only paid for the media.
It was free. NHS paid MS for the right to use and paid an additional premium on that to enable the home use program. This was all under the MS software assurance deal - this lets you use the software, and are entitled to updates *while the NHS are still paying*.
They stopped paying. They lost the rights to run the software, and the home use program also stopped.
The 10 quid (or whatever it was) was a charge imposed by the NHS to cover media duplication (MS just make .isos available) and to cover the admin cost of maintaining records of who has taken up the home use rights (in theory so they can tell them they need to stop using it...)
Some info here
Darren
I've never been quite clear if these schemes are considered by the tax man to be a benefit in kind?
Chris
I thought it was Miss Piggy ... Bill always sounds like Kermit to me.
Cheers, Daniel.
Its a good question actually. Generally when accounting for software licenses, many companies will assume that they in effect have no residual value, and hence any spend on them is immediately written off as a cost rather than depreciated as an asset. So you could argue you have received something worth nothing, but did not pay much for it!
So your employer clothes you and pays your commuting costs too?
Thanks, grabbed a copy of Office for granddaughter to use when she's here next...
My sister's had more than one nursing job (including NHS) where it seems she's expected to buy her own uniform.
Tony Houghton wrote: :: In , :: Dave Liquorice wrote: :: ::: Many jobs involve a uniform (from a MuckyD's server to Police ::: Officer) or specialist PPE, the employer supplies these. :: :: My sister's had more than one nursing job (including NHS) where it :: seems she's expected to buy her own uniform. :: :: -- :: TH *
Suspect these aren't the same things. The 10 quid ones through work will not be a licsense - they are work at home rights. All the time her employer pays this then you can use them. If they stop, you should stop using the software.
The S4S is a licence that *you* own.
The NHS was the former, and they stopped paying.
Darren
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