Special Offer Student Discounts on Software

Back in October, I told you about the free Newcastle College email account that you can set up to keep your college emails separate from your private ones (though you can get any emails redirected to your home account, if you prefer, as I talked about last month).

Another benefit to setting this up is that it means you can take advantage of the special offers on Microsoft, Kaspersky, Adobe and other big-name software packages that are available from Software4Students, a programme designed with Microsoft to help students, teachers and parents access professional versions of software for home use. There's software for MACs, web design, music, even voice recognition, as well as anti-virus and office packages.

To give you some idea of the prices, at the time of writing, they are offering MS Office Professional 2010 and Windows 7 together for a bundled price of £64.99 with free delivery. Amazon are charging £342.14 for the Office suite alone.

All you need to qualify is proof of your student-status, such as a valid "ac.uk" email address, like you get when you set up your Newcastle College outlook account.

Might be worth a look, either for yourself or a family member who wants something computer-related for Christmas. I've personally used this company in the past and will definitely do so again.