Well what are you going to run it on? :wink:

Hahaha - I see what you did there!!!
Hilarious!
Because you like thieve it, and that's why you made the comment "people pay for Office?"
It's like one of those funny joke things! What would have made your post even better however would have been mentioning Microsoft but putting M$ and then one of those "sinister" smilies at the end for added effect.
But otherwise.....hahahaha, sorry - just cannot stop laughing, it's great.....otherwise, it was perfect.

But that doesn't earn the software company a continous stream of income.... renting is much better for a company, those that buy office to own outright may not buy another copy for 10 years or more as the changes are fairly minimal for most users. Let's face it, Office 2003 is good enough for most tasks :smile:

I use these 5 device packs and share among the family so 4 other family members (not in the same household mind you) all get the latest full Office package which in my opinion is a great price for 5 devices.

Well what are you going to run it on? :wink:

The page on the link says £79 not £39...except when bought with a computer, which is hardy a deal!

This is for the 1 device sub? After code? The link goes to 5 device sub where's no mention of the code. Actually not a bad deal but it needs to be clearer.

​Add it to basket. It's a glitch.

Nice, once added to basket it's £39.00 and a 5 user / 1 year sub

It does say £40 discount when bought with computer but it lets you buy it at the discount price regardless.

Literally just bought one of these this morning ~ same price for 1 user @ currys!!!!! Gutted!

What is it with the subscriptions these days.. how about buying the product and getting updates now and then.. hey that sounds familiar xx

Great stuff, mine has literally just expired.
I take it i will just get a card delivered with a redemption code?

Please accept my apology for being cynical above OP, Neoaisac was correct it does seem to be a glitch. I've just placed an order and the confirmation note says it will be delivered by email in the next 24 hours. I've rather assumed I will be able to stack this on my MS Office account (I think the current licence runs until June or July), which will lead to a bit of a saving (probably not as much as the £40 AO claims, I could probably buy it elsewhere for about £60, but still a £20 saving).
Good post OP.

My code just arrive and redeemed perfectly!!! great stuff.
turning auto-renewal on also add's a month (turned it off straight after)
would i be able to buy another to extend even further.

... further to my last:
That was a very painless experience. I paid AO £39 by PayPal, which was accepted immediately. The confirmation email arrived within minutes and the download email (with the MS key) came a few minutes later. I've just logged in to my MS account and in a few moments extended my licence to June 2018.
This really does seem to be a good deal, I don't know how you spotted it OP (you probably need to get out a bit more), but well done.

Personal edition £59 is also reducing to £39 with 'EXTRA20' code, however you might as well just go for the 5 user Home edition at the auto reducing £39

You also get 60 minutes of worldwide Skype (per user) with the O365 subscription, so the monthly fee isn't bad despite the fact it feels a bit off paying Microsoft something each and every month when you used to buy it and have it "for ever" - note they no longer support (some) older versions of Office, so even buying one (two) on disc years back now has rendered them pretty much useless and almost forced to update to 2016 or 365.

I have one user which I just started so I guess I cant code stack this for next year.

worked fine for me - thanks m8nz

Even the normal price of £7.99 per month is a good price for 5 users with all the benefits each.

Thanks OP, just added another year to my family subscription. As previously mentioned, Office365 is worth it for the cloud storage alone. Heated.

7.87% via Topcashback specifically for the purchase of MS Office. Ends tomorrow.

I have received a confirmation of acceptance of one more year from Microsoft.

All went ok for me too :wink:

Great forever free alternative here: https://www.libreoffice.org/
Why chuck your hard earned dosh at Microshaft?

​As others have said, does that include 5 x 1TB of cloud storage and Skype mins...and frankly, is a better product? What does equivalent cloud storage alone cost? Do the maths :-)

Obviously if you just need 'office' software try Microsoft's Office online, Google apps or Libreoffice; all are free but they're not actually comparable to this deal.

Great Deal. I just purchased it. All details came through by e-mail within minutes, and I used the code to add an extra 12 months to my existing Office 365 subscription. I checked in my Microsoft Account details that my subscription had been extended by 12 months, and it had. So I then went back to the AO website and purchased another one, to stack up a further 12 months. So my Office 365 subscription, including the 1TB cloud storage per user, has now been extended by 24 months for less than £80. Many thanks to the OP!

Do you have to order for home delivery or click and collect to get it via email?

Some of us might need specific features, I work from home and office so I need to not worry about slight differences with different software and while I don't really like the idea of subscription based software, the fact is 4 other members of my family can all have the fully featured Office suite for peanuts. Obviously Open Office and the like do offer excellent value for money and will work well for many.

Excellent Price. Cant get it for this less anywhere and i have been checking it for quite some time :smiley:

Great price. It says digital download, but it's asking me for a delivery address. Is it supposed to be delivered via email? I don't live in the UK but I can provide a UK address. Thanks

AO.com choose not to deliver to the Highlands, and that's up to them. But refusing a digital download to a Highland address is beyond stupid.

Personally don't like the idea of 'renting' software.

I bagged a legit copy of Office 2016 a few days ago via the MS-HUP.

However, I don't like that damn flat GUI of the newer incarnations of Office and much prefer the look and feel of MS Office 2010. If I'd known beforehand I probably wouldn't have upgraded.

But I just hate flat GUI in all software plain and simple.

Supposed to be modern and minimalistic, but to me it looks more like a throwback to a long gone computer era. What next? Black & white, like the good old days of DOS? :confused:

That's main reason I'm still on W7 (the last great Windows OS) despite being entitled to the 'free' W10 upgrade. No thanks!

pirate bay ?

If you can get the super cheap HUP deal then that's great, I don't like the idea of renting either and I wouldn't for 1 computer but 5 works out super cheap at less than £8 a year per device for a full office package is super value, even for cheapskates :smile:

Following up on my first post, topcashback has initially tracked as 7.87% of the *full* £79, being £6.21. I'm not getting excited though, as I suspect ao will revise this downwards eventually.

Steal it from a shop? :smile:

I ordered mine late last night, got the AO email but no sign of the licence key yet so not sure if it's automated process for receving? I chose home delivery option.

Depends on the user, I find it's ok for casual stuff but when we try to do certain things on it at work it can become a pain, end up using BYOD and taking work home at times where we had office on it.


Me neither, but the cost can make it a better alternative, especially when you're able to get it cheap like this. Presuming a new version comes out every three years and you can't get an employer discount, you can save hundreds of pounds for the same amount of computers.

At least depending on where/how you get the keys and if you upgrade regularly.


I got mine in minutes using home delivery and paypal, have you checked your junk email?

It seems you get the code quicker when paying by PayPal. I've placed two orders, when i paid by PayPal i got my code within minutes. However when i paid by card, I still haven't received my code yet. It does say it will be delivered within 24hours.

OK so sounds like credit card payments take longer to get the code, no sign of email in spam.

I paid by PayPal last night but have not received code yet.

I'll stick with MS 2010

paid mine by paypal got all receipt emails within 5 mins and code so added to account and updated all in 10 mins and now showing 6.21 on tcb although that was for 79 so guess that will drop when notice only paid 39 but all
good!

DOS were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end... We'd sing and dance forever and a day...

That one probably went straight passed any one under 40 .

Good deal but shame no Access.

​waste of time

it does have access

Me neither.

Sorry, not listed on the box but there in the description.
Microsoft Word works - now I'm really confuzzled.

Thanks OP nice find

just ordered and paid by PayPal received code within 5 mins

https://products.office.com/en-gb/compare-microsoft-office-products

link here for what 365 home includes

Word Perfect 5.1

I'm still using Office 2010. Would this upgrade it?

It's a good price. You won't get as many "Hot" votes as you should, too many people seeing the pirated versions posted here for £10, so they will see this as over-priced.
Usual RRP is £79, Amazon regularly sell for around the £65 mark (why you should never choose the option to renew your subscription automatically - just keep buying boxed codes to extend).
You can pre-load up to 5yrs subscription with 365 - Amazon (direct) were selling this for £35 around Christmas so I purchased 3 of them and now have just under 4yrs subscription left.

No, it's Office 365, a subscription based version of Office. You'd end up with Office 365 (2016) and Office 2010. After 1 year Office 365 would lose functionality unless you kept the subscription going,

Great...super hot from me.just extended for a year

No sign of my code either and nothing in junk (bought around 11pm via Paypal). Did get the initial order confirmation though.

Will get onto them tomorrow if no sign by then but seems odd that some orders are having codes issues almost instantly and others aren't.

Ahh, ok. Thank you.
Might be worth it for Skype and storage...

I've logged into my AO.com account and it says 'your order will be delivered by 23rd February"

Same here. Ordered around midnight and paid with a card. Got the first confirmation email but nothing else since. Order online says delivery by the 23rd but confirmation email says expect second mail within 24 hours containing link and licence key. Guess we need to wait the 24 hours first but if nothing arrives by tomorrow then may need to call.

two words open office

​Yeah I know, same as Pirate Bay in my opinion :laughing:

you're a bit late to the party, we've already been told to use Libre Office.

​out of date and a security risk - libre office is a better option for open source fans.

I'm assuming you can buy two and stack the subscription for two years usage? I'm mostly looking for the most recent Outlook and using the old Outlook versions is an absolute pain these days.

I've been paying £6 a month for office365; this has halved the price. Cheers M8nz.

Does Open Office come with 5TB of cloud storage?

Yes you can, up to a maximum of 5 years of pre-paid subscription (and as they elapse you can then add on more up to the 5 year rolling cap)

They all say about a delivery date, but it's definitely a digital product which will (should) arrive by email. Their cart doesn't really seem set up properly/suitably for non-physical products.

Buying two years gives me the chance over the next while to find the next cheap deals to top up the subscription, I'd never pay £79 for a piece of software I don't even own!

people pay for office? ;/

I took out the free office 365 for a year, developer option that was on here a few months back which comes with everything. It expires after a year obviously so I'm wondering if I could buy this current offer and just continue to use it when the original offer expires.. Anyone done anything similar?

Feel free to share where we can all get a 5 user license with a total of 5TB of cloud storage for free.

We eagerly await your answer.

Paid via PayPal and got code within 10 minutes. Activated and works fine.

Saved me paying £7.99 a month.

Just tried it and it has worked just fine, thanks for the tip!

I was thinking of upgrading Dropbox. 1TB for £79 or 5TB OneDrive for £39 inc Office... no brainer. Bought.. thanks OP!

Dont forget switch off autorenew if it is on....apply the new code and resign up for autorenew for an extra month.

Cheeps OP - good until Aug 2020 - dont mind maying 40 quid a year and got the original couple of years through the LInx and 1 month conversion from personal to Home.

Its £10 on ebay cant see any difference never bought one before so not sure which one to get can anyone please suggest? Thanks

I had just cancelled my £5.99 a month Office 365 personal after a year of free so this is a great offer for me - and can share with family. Thanks!

Just note that this included Outlook email client but that doesn't give you exchange online i.e. email from Microsoft. But you can use it with hotmail/outlook.com free edition or other paid versions and also google etc

Can I just access my Hotmail email addresses using it?

The £10 ones on ebay are usually Office 2016 Pro for 1 computer whereas this is Office 365 for 5 devices on a 1 year subscription. It could be Office 365 that's for a student or such like. I don't want to start an arguement about the validity of the £10 ones on ebay but it's reasonably safe to say they're not a legitimate licence should that bother you whereas this deal is legitimate and comes with no chance of having the software blocked by Microsoft (well unless you don't renew the subscription next year) also comes with other goodies like Skype minutes, 1TB storage etc.

yes, you should be able to use the outlook client to access your email

Thanks for reply. Ebay ones are also 365 but noticed they provide you their own username and password to use this everything else is same like you do get 1tb storage but decided to go with this deal as not sure about ebay one. Thanks for yje post OP

So sounds like they buy the 5 user deal and sell off 5 accounts.....you're somewhat beholden to them, even if they give you a unique log in, they still ultimately are the administrator of the 5 licence account so could delete your user account if they wanted to. Not worth the hassle.

Hahaha - I see what you did there!!!
Hilarious!
Because you like thieve it, and that's why you made the comment "people pay for Office?"
It's like one of those funny joke things! What would have made your post even better however would have been mentioning Microsoft but putting M$ and then one of those "sinister" smilies at the end for added effect.
But otherwise.....hahahaha, sorry - just cannot stop laughing, it's great.....otherwise, it was perfect.

The difference being this one is legit and the ones on Ebay are illegal and pirated.
Just a major difference.

Yes I sold one to my wife, one each to my two sons and one to my 10 year old daughter. :smiley:

You're a scoundrel!

Great find, ordered, many thanks

Awesome..thanks for this. Recently bough a new laptop and downloaded the free trial just to get me going... bought and downloaded this. Really quick to do and even got a free months subscription on top...so 13 months worth...then used a ao voucher and got an additional £10 off. So 13months for less than £30 :smile:

you dont own the software under HUP -

You acknowledge that your right to use Microsoft® software under an MSHUP license will expire upon the earlier of
(a) termination of your employment with the volume licensing customer through which you gained access to MSHUP, or
(b) the expiration or termination of Software Assurance coverage for the corresponding copy of the MSHUP – eligible desktop application that you use at work.

I have just received my code, after I purchased yesterday with my credit card. So be patient it will arrive soon.

Yup! I suppose it a bit like borrowing it from work, but costing a tenner then? :smile:

But until then either A or B occurs, it's costing less than a tenner and if everything is unchanged for say two years, it's cost the user a fiver a year.

I don't create that many Word or Excel documents at home, but it's nice to have MS Office just in case and cannot remember the last time I actually used Access, Publisher or any of the other office applications. So the HUP route for less than a tenner is a winner.

Great! Just got £5.97 off with Topcashback, which tracked right away bringing the price down to £33.03 and also bought a second one via Quidco for a £5 off more than £10 spend plus their (measly) cashback of 3.02% for a total of £32.82 (though they haven't tracked yet). Extended my Personal subscription for another two years, plus an extra month for the auto-renew option and have it upgraded to a Home subscription for under £66. Emails with product codes came through in minutes from AO and they worked fine
when adding them to my existing Microsoft account. Well happy with that. Thanks.

Update: Quidco tracked and for the full purchase amount of £79 they seem to have disregarded the £40 discount offered by AO so gave me £2.37 off plus their current £5 bonus offer...

aww didn't know about cheap one on ebay, whats the down fall of having a licence registered on a different Microsoft account, could I still use it on my laptop , login into my usual personal Microsoft outlook account n settings ? sorry bit confused

hum... I'm still waiting for a code from yesterday?

I've gone for it, paid with paypal, thanks op. heat added
Hopefully the code will come through quickly

Me too.

Code has just arrived, that was quick !

The weirdest thing has just happened to my office account. I had just bought office 365 personal pack (with scratch card) off ebay. I then bought this deal to code stack and realised I couldn't as this is home so I went on chat to upgrade my personal to home. Cut a long story short they upgraded me for free as they wasn't to sure how to do it. I just added my code from AO and my renewal is now showing March 2020! Happy Days.:laughing:

Mine was similar, I had personal and just entered the code and it upgraded to home and added the 1 yr on :-)

Microsoft upgraded me before I entered the ao code. They sent me an email link and it upgraded to home. That took me to March 2018, when I entered the ao code it took me to March 2020. I dont know why but im not complaining.

Was still waiting for my code from yesterday so I decided to order another to stack, this time I paid with PP and not a card. Within 10 minutes I had the email with the code from my second order, still nothing from the first order. The only difference other than using PP is I was signed into my AO account for the second order and I wasn't for the first order.
Think I'll chase them about the first order tomorrow if nothings arrives as it will also be after the 24 hours they say it may take.

There's a mouldy dog turd round the corner, I'll sell you that for £30. Save you £9, bargain.

Same here, still waiting, nearing 24 hours.

OR
if your company where you work/own has a contract with MS, you have the Miscrosoft Work From Home deal, and you get Office 2016 Professional for 9.99. valid for two machines.
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB
to check if you eligible: use code (IF YOU KNOW IT - as yout IT) or use your WORK EMAIL (there is an option to use work email

10 pounds, Carl!

p.s. same licenses on ebay for 18...

and how will it act if you leave your employer? they will wipe office from your own laptop? lol, no

Great! fantastic offer

Just bought Personal for £39 (didn't want to confuse the issue by upgrading to Home) and got a £20 voucher for signing up to an ao.com account. Think I'll go again and get it for £19 this time :smile:

...now if only I can find a Creative Cloud deal before they Brexit the price up next month...

omg

Purchased a copy for £39 without a computer purchase. The discount is applied as you purchase and the receipt states £39. It delivers to a store near within a couple of days - free delivery.

I bought 3 and extended my office 365 to 2023, the comments that ither free software better, I can say goodluck with it.

It does but it you follow through to the checkout the price says £39 so there is a glitch, these things are always noticed quickly though so I'd get in there fast

Great deal and well spotted, heat! :smile:

Great deal! Many thanks for spotting this OP.

Pretty sure they're owned by ebuyer, what do you expect?

And me. I've rung them and they are going to resend it within the next hour apparently.

Completely unrelated companies.

I'm sure this will end sometime today, when someone realises what's happened..

I didn't contact them and my code from my Saturday night order has just arrived! Sorted until 2019 now!!!

I've received my code about an hour ago.

Brilliant deal - thank you

Been a monthly user to check it out and really like it. This type of offer has been on my mind and it seems to have worked for me. I use all my extra users, but am thinking mates could pay me a bargain tenner for a user space and four means my one would be free. I use a free service called multcloud to keep this and my other cloud storage tidy. Microsoft are getting money out of me for the first time ever. Buying soon to be obsolete boxed product is passe. I'm legal and up to date. Lots of winners.

Been changed to -£20 off now so £59!

It looks like I have Personal 365 due to expire in May. Can someone explain to me what I do with this code now? I'm confuddled as I can't see anywhere to redeem it?

Same here, just got the code.

In the "Manage Account" part of your Microsoft account - click on "Renew with an Office product key" and follow the instructions.

Thank you. All sorted.

So it's gone up in price now? Glad I got two years worth and delved into the world of hiring software! Outlook 365 is certainly nippier than Outlook 2007 (as I was using), took all the account details across without any issues too. Now to get the other four user slots filled and get my 1TB of OneDrive space used up!

Yep, expired. It's £59 now

​Agreed. I worked at AO for 6 months and unless the owner also owns ebuyer, which I'm pretty certain he doesn't, then they are not connected. AO used to be called Appliances Online and might have had a different name when formed back at the turn of the century.
Anyway I ordered this last night and got the code ok. Sounds like I was close to missing out.

£18.65 pending cashback from ao.com - Thanks, as I save £120 originally + cashback! 3 years of subscription for £98.35 is awesome price

Anyone else just have their TCB amount plummet?

Bought 2 subs and was originally tracking at around £12 cashback. Look today and it's dropped to £0.81 :disappointed:

yep, from £18 dropped to £1.22

Yeah me too, now 80p but to be honest it was clearly a pricing error by AO so we got the software for £20 to £40 cheaper than usual price so can't or shouldn't really grumble about the cashback :smile:

Agreed. It was a good deal.

Not sure it was a pricing error though because in addition to appearing on ao.com's own website it was also actively promoted on TCB. I decided to raise a query with TCB (currently 'on ice' until 3rd March) and whilst doing so I was asked to pick the offer I'd taken advantage of. Now when I view my claim the offer title shows as "Software – includes Office was £79 now £39!" so seems legit. Not too fussed either way but no harm in trying :wink:

Oh ok I thought on AO it said it was £39 when bought with a PC but if it didn't state that on TCB then it might have been AO's error not advising TCB correctly... well worth making a claim.