Do PCs have Microsoft office installed?
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That 1TB drive doesn't come with office though. Think of the 1TB one drive as a free bonus for paying for the office apps subscription.
That's how I see it. I'd be paying for cloud storage anyway, so I might as well get something free with it. Also with the family subscription I share it with the missus, my sister and mum so it works out at £20 each.
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Many people don't know about this. You get office for free using the web app but it's a heavy cut down version.
Didn't Encarta have a really cool UI for its time?
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Aye, Microsoft had Encarta, Cinemania, Bookshelf, Dinosaurs, Dangerous Creatures etc and they were all really well done.
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Don't forget Encarta had games built into it as well. 
There's no slight about it, they were never intended for resale. Why pay for hooky keys? If you're going to do that you might as well just pirate it outright, activation is easy enough these days.
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It was sarcasm but I guess you didn't get it from text. Using hack tools to pirate software is a security risk that I don't want to take, and also illegal.
Don't forget Encarta had games built into it as well.
I'm currently trying to install encarta, but the CD disk is in a special caddy and I don't have any optical drives?
What do I do?
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Double-u double-u double-u dot Wikipedia dot com then press ENTER.
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You could go on a computer forum at asshk for help
Don't forget Encarta had games built into it as well.
I don't ever remember that.
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Let me remind you. Maybe it wasn't built in and it might have just been called Microsoft Encarta Mind Maze.
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I remember that Encarta 95 cost £350 when it came out.
It's just as "illegal" as the £3 keys that companies are selling.
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No, they're not. As far as the buyer is concerned you purchased a legitimate license key from eBay that worked. If it turns out that the key wasn't allowed to be resold then the seller falsely described and tricked the buyer into believing it was a genuine key. Microsoft can deactivate the license if the seller broke their EULA by reselling the key, but the buyer didn't do anything illegal. These types of keys aren't limited to eBay, they are littered all over Amazon often at £100+. The fact that the buyer paid the seller more money doesn't change anything from a legal viewpoint, if you're saying the buyer from eBay broke the law then so did the person who paid £100+ from Amazon.
Edit: It's actually legal for the seller in the EU, their EULA doesn't supersede the law. I don't know if this applies to the UK since we left
.https://www.computerworld.com/artic...oftware-licenses-is-legal----even-online.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...-even-if-software-company-says-you-cant.shtml
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With a MS account you can use the free versions of some office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint. If the use case exceeds the free versions then get an education discounted edition / licence.