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This is just one instance of the same ad that's offering 2 lifetime licenses for MS Office Pro 2021 (either Mac or Windows) for just $40, which is a deep discount from the standard $319 per-license price. The offer is presented at several well-known reputable publishing sites such as PC Word, Popular Science, etc. However, payment is by PayPal only and the very low price seems to warrant caution (aka "a fool and his money soon parted").
Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License[^]
Fact or fiction? What's your opinion?
/ravi
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Take it. MS will certainly claim it's bogus, but so is everything else they do. I've given up on caring about it.
When MS starts sending me money to compensate my time for their worthless software, I'll feel guilty.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Namaste, Ravi-ji,
Looks legit to me; appears to be sold by the Popular Science website. If you paid by PayPal, you should have "protection." ... famous last words 
cheers, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Meh, they gotcha, Ravi! The real hoax is:
Microsoft Office Professional
In 99.4% of the cases Libre does it for me
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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PopSci is visible enough I doubt they're selling gray market keys (typically created by stealing a companies volume licensing key); so although ProPlus isn't normally available as a standalone purchase I assume they've got some sort of special deal with MS.
OTOH as cheap as it is, I'm assuming that MS will be much stricter about the single install requirement*; and suspect that like the ProPlus you can get with office 365 the install will cripple itself (read only mode??????) if it can't do a monthly phone home to their licensing server.
- not entirely clear if this is just 1 computer at a time, or only on the first computer you install it on (meaning new PC means buying a new copy).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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In my case, you buy the license key, and the software is downloaded and activated from and by Microsoft.
License sale and transfer is legal; some buy in bulk; what do you do with the extra ones? Consign.
I paid by credit card. No issues.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Thanks all for your feedback. This is looking more and more like a valid offering.
/ravi
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Wordle 521 2/6
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Once in a while, you just hit lucky! 
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Wordle 521 5/6
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Wordle 521 3/6
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Wordle 521 3/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 521 4/6
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I know 4 is average but I used three starters and ended the game in 20 seconds flat - basically a speedrun.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Lucky guess
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 521 5/6
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Wordle 521 3/6*
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Annoying, because I often use that as my second guess (if the letters permit), but just felt like trying something else 
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Wordle 521 4/6
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Got too close too fast. 4 steps took about 25 seconds
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #304 3/6 (100%)
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https:
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Astronomers are moon starers? (8)
As pkfox spotted, "Astronomers" is an anagram of "moon starers" - but more importantly, it's an APTAGRAM[^] as well.
"NOTES" and "TONES" are anagrams and synonyms, so they are also an aptagram.
I win! Not sure when tomorrows will be posted: I have both Flu and Covid booster jabs tomorrow at 08:00, and it'll be up to the NHS when I get back. Please bear with me if it's a little late.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 21-Nov-22 11:00am.
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I knew that but it didn't twig 
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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way too cryptic. done
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hah! Not even close to professional crypticism! 
How about "Gegs (9, 4)"?
Or "One may take issue with rising fish stocks (9)" perhaps?
Spoilers:
"SCRAMBLED EGGS"
"KIDNAPPER"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Scrambled eggs and kidnapper
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 22-Nov-22 3:18am.
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Scrambled Eggs I got (I think I have seen that in a wacky wordy)
Please explain kidnapper.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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One may take issue with rising fish stocks (9)
One may take issue (definition)
with and
rising DNA
fish stocks KI PPER
A kipper is a smoked herring, preserved so you can keep a load in stock after a fishing trip. I think this was probably originally a "down" clue, hence the "rising" reversing the order.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Astronomers are moon starers? (8)
I'm going to extend this to 5 hours, as the visit took longer than I expected and I couldn't respond to pkfox's try in a reasonable time).
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 21-Nov-22 7:12am.
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