Student discount on software: how to apply it?

Recently I decided to enroll in a photography program to eventually use as a supplement to my income. The other day I received an email telling me I was entitled to receive MS Office Pro at no cost and the Adobe Creative Cloud at a substantial discount.

Since I already had these programs, I was wondering how this would effect the subscription of these products? As a student I'd pay half as much per month for CC.

I already put my creative cloud on hold since last month, but should I go ahead and cancel it altogether and start over? I get an advantage in both cases, but what becomes of the accounts I presently have? Should my Windows 2013 be uninstall first?

 

Well first off this is a user forum not a software based company support forum and you should directly contact the sender and your college about such offers. Since we don't deal with personal information here or data privacy you need to talk to your adviser or admission college about these questions since they will be better able to handle those matters since those will involve sensitive data in the talk.

 

Actually not private, but note the first paragraph. People share these deals, sales, specials, and promotions here all the time. In fact, this site is where I first learn about most of them.

In additions to doing the same, I was just hoping for a common experience in this circumstance to save some time and bureaucracy. To me, that's the best part of these forums.

 

While the Creative Cloud discount is more or less universal (the 50% off for students and teachers is openly advertised on Adobe's website), the Office one is not - some academic institutions like yours give it away for free, others sell it at a heavy discount, and still others expect you to bring your own copy of Office (meaning no discount whatsoever).

 

Also note...we don't give out real name or address or phone numbers on here either. What your asking deals with your College and any discounts you should contact the company offering Student discount. And FYI this is a international forum if you didn't realize so your question is best direct toward your college customer service as they can best answer your question on how student software discounts and if it has any effects on your current subscription for registered software should you use the student discount. Also Student discount for your software will be maintained by the company offering the discount so should you leave College so will you loose the discount as well. So if you already bought and use the latest software you status will change possible for the software license agreement but will default back to regular when you leave from College.

 

BTW, you lawyer?

 

sure I am a lawyer...how you came to that kind conclusion is beyond mind boggling...if you aren't willing to talk to the company or college your attending about the discounts and its limitation then it's your loss.

 

Pretty much covered here. These companies need to protect their bottom line while still giving valid student discounts. It is understood at some point most individuals will no longer either be a student or teacher. This molds a few different situations for licensing.

Usually either you have the yearly subscription which will have to be renewed at full price at some point. Another is you purchased the software but will have to pay full price for the most recent version. Again it could be the EULA is tied to the institution where as a lot of scenarios can apply.

It varies greatly and under any circumstance there is bureaucracy that needs to be gone through. It is there for a reason to protect you and the companies. as an example what if you were using an improperly licensed software to develop photo's and one of these artistic works generated a huge sum of money. Then all of a sudden the owners of the software found out you made all this money with ill gotten software and decided to go after not just yourself but all of your proceeds along with punitive damages and fines etc.?