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Get Xbox Live gold for free…by buying Office 365?

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Microsoft’s latest iteration of its Office Suite is one hosted up in the cloud. Office 365 offers hosted versions of all of your favourite/most despised Office applications, and as such is a subscription based service. Uptake hasn’t quite been as high as Microsoft had hoped, and they’re now trying to tempt people to use the service…by offering them Xbox Live subscriptions.

Yup. purchase an annual Office 365 Home Premium annual or Office 365 University subscription between July 18, 2013 and September 28, 2013 and Microsoft will send you a code to redeem a year’s worth of Xbox Live, for free.

Usually, these sorts of promotions aren’t available in sunny (yet presently cold) South Africa, but this time, it is, making for a nice change. These are the applicable countries:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the U.K.

Office Home Premium costs R749,99 per year, and allows you to use the service on up to five client machines. Now it’ll also allow you to frag n00bs online and teabag their faces.

Of course, there are people who might prefer to use Google Drive, and pay for a PlayStation Plus subscription, but here’s no denying that Microsoft’s Office apps are superior to Google’s ones. The debate about whether or not Xbox Live is better than the PSN…well that’s a different discussion altogether.

Last Updated: July 19, 2013

33 Comments

  1. OVG

    July 19, 2013 at 09:02

    Get PSN for free by doing nothing.

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    • DarthofZA

      July 19, 2013 at 10:41

      For the next few months… until the PS4 comes out…

      Reply

  2. Admiral Chief Groot Wors

    July 19, 2013 at 09:03

    What about if your company has enterprise agreement with MS? Fee membership then?

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  3. Trevor Davies

    July 19, 2013 at 09:05

    Is this part of their Xbox One is also for businesses because of Skype marketing?

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  4. Craig Deubler

    July 19, 2013 at 09:18

    Office 365 is really good, this is a sweet deal… if I didn’t already have a business account :/

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  5. Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

    July 19, 2013 at 09:18

    Gah. silly typo in headline fixed

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    • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

      July 19, 2013 at 09:25

      Too late, I saw it.

      Buy buying and the link shall forever remind you of spelling BUY vs BY

      Hahaha, bad bad Geoff!

      Reply

  6. Ultimo_Cleric N7

    July 19, 2013 at 09:24

    Interesting. This could also net in some interesting information for marketing purposes. Age groups and LSM’s buying into the deal and all.
    Well played MS.

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  7. jGLZA

    July 19, 2013 at 09:24

    Only a year XBL sub, not worth it. If it was free XBL for as long as you sub to 365 than that would be a pretty good deal!

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  8. Lourens Jordaan

    July 19, 2013 at 09:26

    Open office!!! Open office!!! Open office!!! Open office!!! Open office!!! Open office!!!

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    • Lourens Jordaan

      July 19, 2013 at 09:28

      ^ It’s free!

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    • Gavin Mannion

      July 19, 2013 at 09:30

      sucks.. tried to switch to it so many times and I always go back to Office. It’s not worth the pain working in Open Office

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      • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

        July 19, 2013 at 09:38

        Indeed, I remember a few jobs back when someone phone for support on Open Office I’d just put the phone down and leave the office, building that is

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      • HvR

        July 19, 2013 at 09:43

        Agreed especially if you needed to work on someone elses xdoc but the latest LibreOffice is rock solid.

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        • Gavin Mannion

          July 19, 2013 at 09:52

          I’m never trying it again.. it’s just not worth it when I can get the best office experience for R800 a year. And that’s for all the machines in my house.

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          • Lourens Jordaan

            July 19, 2013 at 10:36

            mmmmm…… R800 a year for an annoying paperclip or Open Office for free? Tough choice. Can I call a friend on this one?

            Seriously though, Open office suites my needs perfectly but I understand that it wouldn’t be the best fit for everyone.

    • Admiral Chief Groot Wors

      July 19, 2013 at 09:37

      Only if you like to stab yourself in the face with a spoon

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    • Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew

      July 19, 2013 at 10:07

      The problem with that is that others don’t use it. Unfortunately MS Office is the better choice.

      Usually I’d agree with you 100% on opensource stuff but yeah. In a working environment getting open office is asking for trouble 🙁

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  9. Gavin Mannion

    July 19, 2013 at 09:31

    Xbox Live is still better than the PSN… HOWEVER PSN+ is an amazing addition and really did level the playing field. The network and OS still suck but hey free games

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    • Spathi

      July 19, 2013 at 09:46

      The OS sucks? Do you like buying your avatar stuff Gavin or why the preference? I prefer the PS OS due to it being so much better as a media player than the xbox. The youtube app on PS is also better. And no advertisements!

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      • Gavin Mannion

        July 19, 2013 at 09:52

        The Xbox dashboard is way more intuitive than the XMB. It’s also quicker and looks a ton better.

        Netflix on PS3 is miles ahead of the Xbox version and yeah I actually like the avatars… but no I don’t spend money on micro transactions (apart from getting the RSA flag for Black Ops 2)

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        • Spathi

          July 19, 2013 at 09:53

          The stuff about the Xbox dashboard is so so subjective, and it is DEFINITELY not quicker, not by a country mile. Also, media player…

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          • Gavin Mannion

            July 19, 2013 at 10:16

            I don’t need a media player so it does nothing for me.. and it is a billion times quicker. downloading a free PSN+ game takes forever while we wait for shit to load.. then click… then confirm.. then click… ARGHGHGH

          • Spathi

            July 19, 2013 at 10:31

            The PS store is slower for sure, I thought you meant the dashboard/xmb interface.

          • FoxOneZA - X-Therminator

            July 19, 2013 at 10:53

            I use both Live and PSN. PSN has a wider variety of games dating back to PSN 1 days. There’s always a good deal to be found on PSN. The interface isn’t as bad as it used to be but my only gripe is the random network performance.

          • Spathi

            July 19, 2013 at 10:55

            Yeah, and the fact that you can buy digital versions of any game is also cool. But the store performance is sluggish…

          • Gavin Mannion

            July 19, 2013 at 15:35

            I mean the entire experience.. just the XMB is fine but that really just loads other applications. It’s not integrated well

          • Gavin Mannion

            July 19, 2013 at 10:20

    • DarthofZA

      July 19, 2013 at 10:47

      I recently traded one of my 360s for a PS3. I sold my PS3 when I had finished all the exclusives a few years back, and got one to play all the exclusives since. The PS OS has come a long way, but wow, it is still leagues ahead of the Xbox one. Just looking for content that you want, or trying to find a specific type of game is a nightmare compared to how fluid and fast MS’ is. Sony have got a lot of things right, but they are nowhere near the quality that MS has with regards to the OS. Good thing they offer so much awesome stuff with Plus.

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      • Gavin Mannion

        July 19, 2013 at 15:34

        Exactly it’s not a fanboy comment it’s just the reality of where we currently sit

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  10. Tbone187

    July 19, 2013 at 10:45

    I don’t like what cloud computing is doing to the industry at all…Nothing is for free.All it says is their subscription fee for Office is overpriced…

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    December 16, 2013 at 10:28

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