
It does not give access to online or cloud services like One Note and One Drive. Note: The license assigned to your account allows you to download Microsoft Office, install it on your machine, and activate it using your account.
When prompted by the software to sign in to your Office 365 account, use your account that you used in Steps 3 and 4. After the software download is complete, install it as you normally would.
Choose Office 365 Apps from the drop-down menu.
Select Install Office in the upper-right corner. If a "First Run Experience" window opens up, you can close it by clicking the X in the corner. If you have not yet set up Duo, you can create a Duo account and learn more about Duo. Authenticate with the Duo MFA action of your choice. Enter your same account address and your standard UNI password, and select Sign in. Enter your account address (e.g., ), and select Next. can download Microsoft Office (includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more) and install it on up to 5 computers or devices for free. CUIMC affiliates should visit the " CUIMC-IT page" instead. Full-time employees (including Officers of Instruction, Officers of Research, and Staff). CBS students should visit the Business School student pageinstead. SIPA students should visit the SIPAIT student page. CU graduate students (including CUIMC and Law School). The point is - try stuff out, see what you like, and try to figure out what makes you the most productive without worrying about "some day I won't be able to afford this" (but by all means you should also rabble-rouse if you find the prices for the software you use are unreasonable and inflexible). I don't remember if he went so far as to say "at some level, people pirate it" but that's a reality that only the really oblivious would ignore. People get it bundled with new computers, pay substantially lower upgrade fees, or something else.
I worked on MS Office and I once remember Sinofsky (then in charge of Office) once talking about the pricing structure of Office and saying nobody paid the ~$400 MSRP. My sense is that most commercial software vendors want you to use their software and want you to get it legitimately and want to find a way where you can pay what vaguely seems like it should be mutually agreeable (if you're using it educationally, there are often ways to get it for free, if you're a developer for a large organization, they want that organization to actually pay for it and support the value they're getting out of you using it). It might be this (it's long enough and old enough it might be right):īut essentially you're likely to find many models of software (from large software vendors) with a lot of different models for how you can try / use / own it. There's a good article from Joel on Software about how software is priced.