How to obtain Microsoft Windows 8, Dell Drivers, and MicrosoftOffice 2010 for free

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:12:25 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:48:46 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Danny D. wrote:
For Microsoft Office, they told me to download the disks from:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup
Here, you enter your 25-digit product key & can order disks ($13)
or download the installation files yourself.

snip

3. MS Office Standard Edition 2003 for Students and Teachers (217 MB):
For some reason, this was *not* available for download when I entered
in the product key into the forma at:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup

We were forced to obtain the download using the URL located he
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m9ggpua
Which pointed to this URL:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...9-fc9dd6e9225a
Which pointed to this URL:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../OfficeSTD.exe

Q: Does anyone know why the "normal" download page won't work for
Microsoft Office 2003 (but works for 2007 & 2010)?

I smell a rat!

This is what *I* see at the last link you posted:
http://i40.tinypic.com/azf8rd.jpg


Why would you expect anything different? The URL pretty clearly shows
that you would be downloading OfficeSTD.exe (presumably, the Office
Standard installer) from download.microsoft.com... Why would that smell
like a rat to you?

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

Would I think *what* otherwise?

Do you think that Microsoft *does* provide Microsoft Office as a download?

The URL pointed to a download of a Microsoft Office product installer.
What I think one way or another is irrelevant. What is said online, in
another forum, is irrelevant.

It's not *just* another forum!

It is the 'mouthpiece' of Microsoft!

All my previous queries at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us have led
me to understand that Microsoft appointed 'staff' check that answers
giver are correct.

Do you dispute this?

What is relevant is that the download exists.

Does it now?!! Point to the relevant URL for the download, please.

--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery

FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

--
Just an inkling, of course!

~BD~ has brought this to us :
FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it with
a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled - and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

I'm downloading it now, I'll get back to you.

~BD~ used his keyboard to write :
FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

Downloads are free, it's activation keys that cost you.

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:06:13 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

Danny says he (rather, his client) has product keys. Sounds valid (or
legitimate, if you prefer) to me.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

FromTheRafters used his keyboard to write :
~BD~ has brought this to us :
FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it with
a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled - and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

I'm downloading it now, I'll get back to you.

What I got was a PE file:
MD5:7215097204E61A3C512C55E826182B57
Size:77594624

FromTheRafters wrote:
FromTheRafters used his keyboard to write :
~BD~ has brought this to us :
FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it
with
a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled - and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer
filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3


Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

I'm downloading it now, I'll get back to you.

What I got was a PE file:
MD5:7215097204E61A3C512C55E826182B57
Size:77594624

Please post the link from which you effected the download.

Can you use that PE file to load Microsoft Office on to your computer?

If not, what else do you need?

--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery

FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ used his keyboard to write :
FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

Downloads are free, it's activation keys that cost you.

IAWTP :-)

From *where* may folk obtain a download of Microsoft Office?

There's no 'free' version here, btw!

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...oryID.62684700

--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:02:16 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:12:25 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:48:46 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Danny D. wrote:
For Microsoft Office, they told me to download the disks from:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup
Here, you enter your 25-digit product key & can order disks ($13)
or download the installation files yourself.

snip

3. MS Office Standard Edition 2003 for Students and Teachers (217 MB):
For some reason, this was *not* available for download when I entered
in the product key into the forma at:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup

We were forced to obtain the download using the URL located he
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m9ggpua
Which pointed to this URL:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...9-fc9dd6e9225a
Which pointed to this URL:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../OfficeSTD.exe

Q: Does anyone know why the "normal" download page won't work for
Microsoft Office 2003 (but works for 2007 & 2010)?

I smell a rat!

This is what *I* see at the last link you posted:
http://i40.tinypic.com/azf8rd.jpg


Why would you expect anything different? The URL pretty clearly shows
that you would be downloading OfficeSTD.exe (presumably, the Office
Standard installer) from download.microsoft.com... Why would that smell
like a rat to you?

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

Would I think *what* otherwise?

Do you think that Microsoft *does* provide Microsoft Office as a download?

The URL pointed to a download of a Microsoft Office product installer.
What I think one way or another is irrelevant. What is said online, in
another forum, is irrelevant.

It's not *just* another forum!

It is the 'mouthpiece' of Microsoft!

All my previous queries at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us have led
me to understand that Microsoft appointed 'staff' check that answers
giver are correct.

Do you dispute this?

What is relevant is that the download exists.

Does it now?!! Point to the relevant URL for the download, please.

?

I've included it in my response as a part of Danny D's post, what more
do you desire? It is there, on a Microsoft server, you confirmed it
yourself, what more do you want?

As to that forum being a Microsoft mouthpiece, it is no more so than
this newsgroup - or had you noticed that the reply in the thread you
posted was from just another forum member, not a Microsoft employee?

I'm done here - you clearly need more help than I am willing to (and
certainly more than I'm licensed to) provide.

--
Zaphod

Adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships,
often thought to be completely out to lunch.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:23:08 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" not-
lid wrote in article
...

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:06:13 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

Danny says he (rather, his client) has product keys. Sounds valid (or
legitimate, if you prefer) to me.

Indeed. I think it is ~BD~ that isn't being straight with folk - that
is, is looking for a free *license* of office, not a free *download*
which can be used with a key already in one's possession.

--
Zaphod

"The best Bang since the Big One" - Eccentrica Gallumbits

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:02:16 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:12:25 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:48:46 +0100, "~BD~"
wrote in article ...

Danny D. wrote:
For Microsoft Office, they told me to download the disks from:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup
Here, you enter your 25-digit product key & can order disks ($13)
or download the installation files yourself.

snip

3. MS Office Standard Edition 2003 for Students and Teachers (217 MB):
For some reason, this was *not* available for download when I entered
in the product key into the forma at:
http://office.microsoft.com/backup

We were forced to obtain the download using the URL located he
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m9ggpua
Which pointed to this URL:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...9-fc9dd6e9225a
Which pointed to this URL:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../OfficeSTD.exe

Q: Does anyone know why the "normal" download page won't work for
Microsoft Office 2003 (but works for 2007 & 2010)?

I smell a rat!

This is what *I* see at the last link you posted:
http://i40.tinypic.com/azf8rd.jpg


Why would you expect anything different? The URL pretty clearly shows
that you would be downloading OfficeSTD.exe (presumably, the Office
Standard installer) from download.microsoft.com... Why would that smell
like a rat to you?

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

Would I think *what* otherwise?

Do you think that Microsoft *does* provide Microsoft Office as a download?

The URL pointed to a download of a Microsoft Office product installer.
What I think one way or another is irrelevant. What is said online, in
another forum, is irrelevant.

It's not *just* another forum!

It is the 'mouthpiece' of Microsoft!

All my previous queries at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us have led
me to understand that Microsoft appointed 'staff' check that answers
giver are correct.

Do you dispute this?

What is relevant is that the download exists.

Does it now?!! Point to the relevant URL for the download, please.

?

I've included it in my response as a part of Danny D's post, what more
do you desire? It is there, on a Microsoft server, you confirmed it
yourself, what more do you want?

Please post the Message ID or the URL again.

As to that forum being a Microsoft mouthpiece, it is no more so than
this newsgroup - or had you noticed that the reply in the thread you
posted was from just another forum member, not a Microsoft employee?

It seems you are unfamiliar with Microsoft Answers! :-)

Read here, please:

"Dena B is not a volunteer contributor. She is a forum moderator. I am a
volunteer though

Please see the definition of a Microsoft Community forum moderator (as
can be found in the FAQ):

'Forum moderators are experts engaged by Microsoft to mark the best
answers, manage abuse, and maintain community health.'

This means that Dena B is not a volunteer contributor, however she is
not an official Microsoft employee. She is probably indirectly employed
through another customer support company or similar system by Microsoft
to help out in this forum. Official Microsoft employees will have the
blue Microsoft badge below their names in their posts and on their profile.

Hope this has helped,
Jetpack_B

**

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/f...a509cd5?page=3

You may have to sign in to read, but it's on a Microsoft server so
should be 'safe'!

I'm done here - you clearly need more help than I am willing to (and
certainly more than I'm licensed to) provide.

Thank you for your participation in this thread.

--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery

On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:48:14 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:23:08 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" not-
lid wrote in article
...

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:06:13 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

FromTheRafters wrote:
Danny D. used his keyboard to write :

Q: Does anyone know what an FPP is & should we archive that and the
original product key or just the FPP?

The program file and the FPP key is equivalent to a boxed set from a
brick and mortar store.

Q: Does anyone know why you can't change the file name?

Because they told you not to?

(do you think it matters at installation time?)

Yes, I do, but I can't find any documentation that explains why. Maybe
the filename is coded to match with the e-mail address they had you use
- kind of a verification thingy? If you find out, I would be interested
in the documentation.

I'm sure you noticed the 'Subject' of this thread!

"How to obtain [....] Microsoft Office 2010 *for free*

I don't believe 'Danny' is being straight with folk! ;-)

Danny says he (rather, his client) has product keys. Sounds valid (or
legitimate, if you prefer) to me.

Indeed. I think it is ~BD~ that isn't being straight with folk - that
is, is looking for a free *license* of office, not a free *download*
which can be used with a key already in one's possession.

:-)

And quoting you from a recent post in this thread,

"I'm done here"

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

~BD~ expressed precisely :
FromTheRafters wrote:
FromTheRafters used his keyboard to write :
~BD~ has brought this to us :
FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it
with
a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled - and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer
filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3


Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

I'm downloading it now, I'll get back to you.

What I got was a PE file:
MD5:7215097204E61A3C512C55E826182B57
Size:77594624

Please post the link from which you effected the download.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../OfficeSTD.exe

Is that the right one?

Can you use that PE file to load Microsoft Office on to your computer?

No, but it has a bunch of CAB files' names listed and a setup.exe some
DLLs and some INIs.

If not, what else do you need?

I don't know, it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it is corrupted or
something, it took a while to download. I tried to execute it in
Sandboxie and only get a message that it is not a valid Win32
executable.

Dustin wrote:
~BD~ wrote in
:

FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it
with a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled - and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer
filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Inaccurate. Again, The url to office2003 standard/home edition has already
been provided in another thread. The poster just didn't get back to me.

You appear to be throwing some doubt about the accuracy of information
given in the Microsoft Community http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us

Is that right?

Do you think otherwise?

*yawn*

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

*That is a FACT* :-)

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3

Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

All checked and vetted by the likes of PABear - so it *must* be true!

--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery

FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ expressed precisely :
FromTheRafters wrote:
FromTheRafters used his keyboard to write :
~BD~ has brought this to us :
FromTheRafters wrote:
~BD~ wrote :
[....]
AFAIK, one cannot download MS Office and then simply activate it
with
a 'key'. Do you think one can?

Like you, I have never claimed to be a guru.

True - but you are fairly knowledgeable! ;-)

Is what Dustin has now said correct - in *your* opinion?

I've never tried it. My Vista machine had a trial preinstalled -
and I
never used it. I got 'viewers' installed for reading the filetypes I
need to look at.

I 'assume' that there's no reason for it not to be possible. Why
would
it care about anything but the key (and perhaps the installer
filename).

"*MS no longer downloads it online*".

Stated he-

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...0-1d66ad8af2d3



Or http://goo.gl/0jIOv

Do you think otherwise?

I'm downloading it now, I'll get back to you.

What I got was a PE file:
MD5:7215097204E61A3C512C55E826182B57
Size:77594624

Please post the link from which you effected the download.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../OfficeSTD.exe


Is that the right one?

I have no idea! How and where did you find the URL, FTR?

Can you use that PE file to load Microsoft Office on to your computer?

No, but it has a bunch of CAB files' names listed and a setup.exe some
DLLs and some INIs.

I downloaded them to my Mac for a looksee!

If not, what else do you need?

I don't know, it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it is corrupted or
something, it took a while to download. I tried to execute it in
Sandboxie and only get a message that it is not a valid Win32 executable.

You have no doubt considered that it's possibly not bona fide?

Perhaps you should investigate this a little deeper - or send it to
Dustin and see if *he* can make it work.

I'm off to my bed now! 'nite! :-)
--
"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of stroking
the tiger"

~ Fernand Mery