PreMagination » office 2007 http://www.premagination.com A living document of Drew Loika's... Life, Passions, and Follies Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 I think I’m gonna “steal” Office 2007 http://www.premagination.com/2007/10/29/i-think-im-gonna-steal-office-2007/ http://www.premagination.com/2007/10/29/i-think-im-gonna-steal-office-2007/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:28:46 +0000 Drew Loika http://www.premagination.com/2007/10/29/i-think-im-gonna-steal-office-2007/ Gasp! How can a software engineer promote stealing software!?! Relax, it’s just a clever marketing effort from Microsoft. Random browsing brought me to the Ultimate Steal site which is an official Microsoft sight offering Office 2007 Ultimate (yes Ultimate) to current students for $60. A quick google shows this normally goes for $679.99? Apparently Microsoft figured out that most normal students are way too poor to afford their products, so in the interest of establishing preference (and staving off open source alternatives) they’ll give it to us for only sixty bucks. Works for me!

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* Run Outlook 2007
* Go to Tools menu / Trust Center…
* Add-ins option. Select COM Add-ins from the Manage dropdown and click Go..
* Look for Export to Mindjet MindManager and untick it. OK the popup.
* Close Outlook (watch it crash) and Restart it.
* Job done!

Cheers!

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