Can't buy MS Office media anymore?

[Diggs]

I've looked and looked to buy Office 2016 Home and Student CD/DVD for client(s). Most are rural and are Internet challenged so the download direct to them is not feasible. Is shrink wrapped jewel case distribution available anymore?

 

[MichaelBits]

Not really.
You could download the installer and then...
You might be able to burn one for them, or put it on a flash drive for them.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Sadly, the CD no longer works anyway. MS just ships a key, that authorizes an account to the download, the download is the software and then it's updated along with Windows Update. Even if you install from a CD, the entire thing will be re-downloaded anyway... you've saved nothing.

MS has seemingly forgotten about the offline user demographic.

 

[skdmaster]

But what you can do is once you register the Office 2016 and make an account you can go in and there is an option to retrieve the old type of install key and also download an image to create a disc. We retrieve the key and put it on a label with their account info but you can create a disc and change a nominal fee for the media creation and give them it as a set.

 

[phaZed]

MS has seemingly forgotten about the offline user demographic.

The entire industry has forgotten the offline user!

 

[timeshifter]

The entire industry has forgotten the offline user!

Yeah! I miss getting program updates in the mail on 3.5" floppy disks too!!

 

[Diggs]

There's some customers (old school) that just like to have that jewel case in their hands. Same group doesn't trust "The Cloud"......

 

[mikeroq]

Yea I retrieve the "install key" and record it in my records and use the installer from the disc image for 2013 and 2016.

I would burn them a disc and provide the install key. Otherwise I just give them a copy of the install key.

 

[Sky-Knight]

But what you can do is once you register the Office 2016 and make an account you can go in and there is an option to retrieve the old type of install key and also download an image to create a disc. We retrieve the key and put it on a label with their account info but you can create a disc and change a nominal fee for the media creation and give them it as a set.

You know I always forget about that option, but you're correct it is indeed there. It's still going to get stale fast though.

 

[GTP]

Could you download the .iso through the Windows ISO Downloader burn to disc and just provide them with a key?

 

[Diggs]

I'll work through the options with them but this instance is an older couple that have just about every jewel case for every piece of software on their machine. They were expecting the same for their next version of Office, not a shop-burned, hand-written DVD which is why I asked the question.

 

[Porthos]

If you provided the little box with the PKC. The clients need to understand this is 2017 an the majority of software does not come with a disk. Many computers donteven come with disk drives to install from a disk.

Now if you did not sell a retail PKC, Good luck convincing them.