Well we are a charity and fortunate enough to belong to an umbrella organization of Microsoft that offers the software to registered charities at 10% of the market prices. Although we cannot get Office 2016, I am quite happy with Office 2010.
Microsoft also has a schools offering!
Blessings!
Sorry about your "saving" mishap my friend!
Actually my school also gives free legal copies of MS Office, but they just won't activate properly under Linux...complex Windows things that I don't really want to deal with, lol. Glad to hear that they are actually doing their part at making the software available to more!
They won't work under a Linux driver my friend. In order to run Office, the Windows Pro driver has to be installed first.
But if you are happy with Linux then stick to it.
Blessings!
I do have Windows sitting in another partition of the hard drive, but yeah I prefer Linux in almost every way :D