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Buy a Microsoft Office for Windows license for with this deal

Buy a Microsoft Office for Windows license for $40 with this deal

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Download a lifetime license to Microsoft Office at a deep discount with this deal. Stack Social If you need access to Microsoft Office but don’t want to pay the yearly fee to access Office 365, you’re in luck: Stack Social is offering a lifetime license for Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows or Mac, starting at $45 (reg. $220) — that’s 79% off. Pay just once, and get lifetime access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access, no matter what kind of device you’re using. This deal gets you a one-time purchase to be installed on one device. You’ll need Windows 10 or 11, or MacOS Monterey, Ventura, or Sonoma to download the software. A caveat: While Stack Social is an authorized Microsoft partner and offers “lifetime” access to Office, it is possible that Microsoft could end the license. But the site has been running these Microsoft deals for years, and I can personally vouch for them — I purchased an Office license from Stack Social about two years ago, and …

Buy Microsoft Project Pro or Microsoft Visio Pro for right now

Buy Microsoft Project Pro or Microsoft Visio Pro for $20 right now

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Get Microsoft Project 2021 Pro or Visio 2021 on sale right now.  Stack Social Project management is the bread and butter of the professional world, but actually getting things done can be a challenge. Professional software can optimize many operations to maximize efficiency and productivity when you need it most. You might want to consider investing in Microsoft Visio 2021 Pro or Microsoft Project 2021 Pro, both on sale at Stack Social for $20 right now — 92% off the usual price of $250 each.  For those looking to work with flowcharts, diagrams, and more, Microsoft Visio‘s online content ecosystem features over 250,000 shapes to choose from when diagramming, and it can generate org charts from Excel, Microsoft Entra ID, and Exchange.  On the other hand, Microsoft Project comes with pre-built templates that will help guide your project management from the outset of a campaign to ensure it’s well organized and includes every area that needs attention. It can sync with Project Online and Project Server for easier collaboration and sharing with team members. A caveat: …

Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac is just right now

Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac is just $25 right now

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Score a Microsoft Office license now for 89% off.  StackSocial Whether you’re setting up your new laptop or using a machine you’ve had for years, access to Microsoft Office is a necessity for many of us to get things done. Right now, you can buy a lifetime license to the 2019 version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus for either Windows or Mac from Stack Social for $25 — that’s 89% off, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen.  The only major difference between Office 2019 and later versions is that it doesn’t include Microsoft Teams. However, it does include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access — so if that’s all you need, it’s a great deal for the price. (If you do want a version of Microsoft Office with Teams, you can check out this deal for Microsoft Office Professional 2021.) A caveat: While Stack Social is an authorized Microsoft partner and offers “lifetime” access to Office, it is possible that Microsoft could end the license. But the site has been running these Microsoft deals for …

Grab a Microsoft Office 2021 for Windows license for $40

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Download a lifetime license to Microsoft Office at a deep discount with this deal. Stack Social If you need access to Microsoft Office but don’t want to pay the yearly fee to access Office 365, you’re in luck: Stack Social is offering a lifetime license for Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows or Mac, starting at $45 (reg. $220) — that’s 79% off. Pay just once, and get lifetime access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access, no matter what kind of device you’re using. This deal gets you a one-time purchase to be installed on one device. You’ll need Windows 10 or 11, or MacOS Monterey, Ventura, or Sonoma to download the software. A caveat: While Stack Social is an authorized Microsoft partner and offers “lifetime” access to Office, it is possible that Microsoft could end the license. But the site has been running these Microsoft deals for years, and I can personally vouch for them — I purchased an Office license from Stack Social about two years ago, and …

Buy a Microsoft Office for Windows license for with this deal

Buy Microsoft Office 2021 for Windows for $60

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Download a lifetime license to Microsoft Office at a deep discount with this deal. Stack Social If you need access to Microsoft Office but don’t want to pay the yearly fee to access Office 365, you’re in luck: Stack Social is offering a lifetime license for Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows or Mac, starting at $60 (reg. $220) — that’s 72% off. Pay just once, and get lifetime access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, and Access, no matter what kind of device you’re using. Also: The best Prime Day deals: Live updates This deal gets you a one-time purchase to be installed on one device. You’ll need Windows 10 or 11, or MacOS Monterey, Ventura, or Sonoma to download the software. A caveat: While Stack Social is an authorized Microsoft partner and offers “lifetime” access to Office, it is possible that Microsoft could end the license. But the site has been running these Microsoft deals for years, and I can personally vouch for them — I purchased an Office license from …

Get a one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 for right now: Last chance

Get a one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 for $45 right now: Last chance

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Get a one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 at a big discount right now. StackSocial If you’ve recently upgraded your laptop, you may have suddenly found yourself without access to Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest of Microsoft’s near-necessary software. And since Microsoft switched from the traditional Office suite to a Microsoft 365 subscription service, it’s become more expensive to access those programs. But right now, Microsoft partner StackSocial is offering a one-year subscription to Microsoft 365 for $35, down from the usual price of $70 and the lowest price we’ve seen so far.  This deal gets you a year of access to the premium Office apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, along with 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. You can use the apps and storage across multiple PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Android devices.  StackSocial also offers deals on previous versions of Microsoft Office, which get you a lifetime license for one price (at the time of this writing, you can buy Microsoft Office Home & Business 2019 for PC or Mac for …

Last chance to get a Microsoft Visual Studio Pro license for 92% off

Last chance to get a Microsoft Visual Studio Pro license for 92% off

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Amplify your dev work with this deal on Visual Studio Pro 2022 right now.  StackSocial Having in-house development is a massive advantage for many businesses. And having software on hand to help streamline workflows, amplify productivity, and keep projects on track is a must — especially when you can get it at a discount. Right now, Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows is on sale for only $35 (reg. $499), saving you 92%. Described as a “fully featured development environment,” Visual Studio 2022 is Microsoft’s first 64-bit IDE, and it became its best to date at working with complicated workloads and large-scale projects.  Also: The best Prime Day deals: Live updates Microsoft Visual Studio Professional users can build across different languages and platforms, which greatly opens up the range of potential projects they can take on.  Visual Studio also comes with automated support systems like IntelliCode, which can understand the context of the code you’re writing, and help add variable names, functions, and more to enable users to code more while typing less. Similar to …

Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally

Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally

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Businesses across the world are reporting IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, in what has already become one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years. The outage — linked to a software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike — has affected computers running Microsoft Windows at organizations across various sectors, including airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies and railway networks. The travel sector seems to be one of the hardest hit, based on online chatter. CrowdStrike’s chief executive, George Kurtz, confirmed in a post on X that a “defect” in a content update for Windows hosts had caused the outage, and Kurtz ruled out a cyberattack. He added that the firm was rolling out a fix and that Mac and Linux hosts were not affected. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted,” Kurtz noted on X. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has …

What the Microsoft Outage Reveals

What the Microsoft Outage Reveals

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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. It happened again: yet another cascading failure of technology. In recent years we’ve had internet blackouts, aviation-system debacles, and now a widespread outage due to an issue affecting Microsoft systems, which has grounded flights and disrupted a range of other businesses, including health-care providers, banks, and broadcasters. Why are we so bad at preventing these? Fundamentally, because our technological systems are too complicated for anyone to fully understand. These are not computer programs built by a single individual; they are the work of many hands over the span of many years. They are the interaction of countless components that might have been designed in a specific way for reasons that no one remembers. Many of our systems involve massive numbers of computers, any one of which might malfunction and bring down all the rest. And many have millions of lines of computer code that no one entirely grasps. We don’t appreciate any of this until things go wrong. We discover the fragility of our …

Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs? | Microsoft IT outage

Tell us: how have you been affected by the outage linked to Windows PCs? | Microsoft IT outage

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Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations caused by a CrowdStrike software update has affected major companies such as Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink and infrastructure, including health services around the world. Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe. George Kurtz, the founder and chief executive of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has said the company is “deeply sorry for impact that we’ve caused to customers.” Kurtz told NBC’s Today Show in the US that the problem was down to a bug in a single update. “We identified this very quickly and remediated the issue,” he said, adding that CrowdStrike was now “working with each and every customer to make sure that we can bring them back online”. If you’ve been affected by the outage, we’d like to hear from you. Share your experience Let us know how you’ve been affected by the global outage linked to Windows PCs in the …