Cal State University Long Beach announced via Beach Board and students’ emails that starting Oct. 1 students have the opportunity to download Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus for free.
They are allowed to download Microsoft Office on up to five devices for free, according to the announcement. PC users can download Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher. However, Mac users are limited to only Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
The school is also allowing students to have one terabyte of cloud storage through Microsoft OneDrive, according to the announcement.
Microsoft OneDrive will let students save the work they created in one device and pull it up on another computer. By using OneDrive, users can avoid relying on flash drives and emailing work to themselves, according to Microsoft.
“I always have to type my stuff on an email, email it to myself, come to school, pull up on my email, paste it on a Word document and then do all the MLA formatting,” senior accounting major Fatima Ramos said. “I’m definitely downloading it now that I know it’s easy to download and there’s no catch to it being free.”
Many students have said that they have not had time to download Microsoft Office 365; but freshman communications major Dave Graham expressed how he felt about not having to pay the $80 for the programs.
“I’m glad I can finally stop using all my emails in order to subscribe for the free 60-day trials,” Graham said. “Coming into [CSULB] I knew I would need Word, but I thought I was going to have to pay for it myself, it’s nice to know that we at least get [Microsoft Office] for free after paying all these fees.”
