Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97
Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97 Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 am Thu Sep 24, 2026 Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher. A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either.
- ▪Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97 Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 am Thu Sep 24, 2026 Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post.
- ▪TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher.
- ▪A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either.
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| Original publisher | Boing Boing |
| Canonical URL | https://boingboing.net/2026/09/24/set-up-one-pc-with-windows-11-pro-and-microsoft-office-for-32-97.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T15:55:26.125Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T15:55:26.125Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | D_oCWxqMJV_b · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97 Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 am Thu Sep 24, 2026 Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher. A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either. This bundle handles both in one purchase, pairing Windows 11 Pro with Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for $32.97 (reg. $418.99).
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