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Need a windows VM with MS office, as cheap as possible (EU/NL)
For the girlfriend. She needs office for some university work. Libreoffice is not an option.
What I'm looking for:
Windows + Office 2007/2010.
My last real windows deployment was with win 2000, so I have no idea what kind of specs it needs. It does have to be in the EU, preferably the netherlands.
What can you offer me, and for what price? I have no windows and/or office licenses.
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Check if the University offers Windows or Office licenses for free.
What about using VNC and using Gnome or any other GUI, OpenOffice is free and I am pretty sure you can save as MS Office docs.
I can vouch for that, although some .ppt's might be defaced.
Nope. Libreoffice is not an option this time. Have tried it, she uses it already, but these are complex formatted documents (and she does not want to learn latex
) and she needs to share them with other students. Libreoffice might open some, but when it saves them formatting back in win7 is fcked up. So, not an option this time, otherwise I wouldn't need to be doing this request 
http://vmserver.pl/oferta-windows-vps.htm sorry it's in Polish but they provide rock solid services. 2GB VM for ~30EUR/month, Office 2012 for 20EUR
Why do you want a VM? Why not run Windows on your local machine in a virtualbox or something?
@Freek she has a laptop which barely runs XP... And she does not want to have a machine/server running 24/7.
One day office 365 will probably be as good as the offline version just to solve this kinda problems?
Have you tried Google Docs?
Google Docs sucks at editing
looks interesting.. the small business P1plan is free for 30 days and $6/month per user after that. Probably cheaper than a windows VPS
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx?WT.z_O365_ca=Buy_small-business_en-us#fbid=QFvsEXO_s0L
http://nivio.com
Does that work for you? I'm not sure if it is USA only.
If it does work you can get nDesktop and they have Microsoft Office on there.
I'm not sure how much it is after the 30 day trial.
move to help section?
Hmm, too bad http://desktop.onlive.com/ isn't ready for desktops. Says coming soon, don't know how long that'll be though.
+1, sounds better for your situation.
Downloading Office Portable and running over WINE works too.
Thanks, that might just be what we are looking for.
Yeah, already saw that
Too bad...
I'm not looking for help on running office on linux, i'm looking for a windows vps capable of running office. But since I've not used any of the windows server products since windows 2000 I have no idea what specs it needs.
@joepie91 gave me this tip: http://www.corgitech.com/ the windows basic package but that has 512MB ram, is that enough? (Windows server 2008 standard + office 2010)
You can use Microsoft Office Web Apps for free on SkyDrive.