![]() ![]() You could buy items as gifts, but if a lot of your purchases started showing up on auction sites or whatnot then you could get in trouble. They did keep tabs on people who tried to abuse the system by reselling products acquired at a discount. Windows NT 4.0 Office Suite - MS - OFFICE PRO, provided on CD - ROM. One thing that's worth pointing out is that anything that you bought at a discount was tagged with your employee number. The offeror shall extend by the Government the full coverage of any standard. To obtain the deal, new customers can call (877) 426-2024 or visit a local store, and existing customers can call (877) 453-8824. I know that there was a physical employee store in Redmond on campus, and also one online for people who lived in other cities. T-Mobile: Offers a 15 percent discount to federal employees. This was all in the days before they had Microsoft retail stores, so I don't know if you can get a discount at the retail stores or if you have to go through the employee store still. I think that Windows Server was a tad more, as was Visual Studio. You could get the full version of Office Pro or Windows for about $30-$35. I never bought an XBox or Zune from the employee store (the most expensive hardware that they had at the time) because I already owned them. ![]() I seem to recall being able to get mice and keyboards that retailed for $25-$30 for about $15. Hardware discounts were good, but probably not what I would consider Black Friday Doorbuster good. ![]() On software the discounts are much bigger than on hardware, simply because hardware is a physical good that has a per-unit cost to manufacture. MSFT employees get to buy from the employee store at substantial discounts. ![]()
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