Valid this week until March 12, here are some great printable coupons to use in store at Office Depot and coupon codes to use online at www.officedepotcanada.ca on:

• printers
• all-in-ones
• USB drives
• portable drives
• blank CDs

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From February 15 - 19, be business smart and save money with this save 50% on Office Depot branded business envelopes deal! Just click on the link and coupon code 23056710 will be applied automatically!

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Download and print these Office Depot coupons to save on office furniture and supplies in store! But hurry! These offers expire February 12th!

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Office Depot is having a great paper sale! Copy paper, Multipurpose paper, Recycled Copy Paper, Laser Printer Paper, Inkject Paper, Thermal Paper, Photo Paper, Colour Paper…paper! Paper! PAPER!

Time to stock up! 

And more paper deals!

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Microsoft is offering a free download of it’s new Office product, Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Professional. It’s completely free to use and should be valid (once you’ve installed it) until late next year. Remember this is a beta version only, so it may have a few issues, but it’s still a free high quality office suite, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, email, PowerPoint and more.

System Requirements:

• 500 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
• 256 MB of system memory or more
• 3.5 GB of available disk space
• 1024×768 or higher resolution monitor
• DVD-R/W Drive

• Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit)
• Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Download: Office 2010 Beta

YWriter is free Novel writing software designed to keep your novel or story organized through one program. It helps eliminate the need to manage separate documents in programs like Microsoft Word. It has all the basics to keep your characters, plot lines, drafts, and locations organized.

Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft.net Framework (available for free from Microsoft), Windows 98 or greater and approximately a Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM or greater (it will run on slower machines).
Download Page: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Download.html

Quickstart Guide: http://www.spacejock.com/files/yWriter5Guide.pdf

For all Windows 7, Vista and XP users, there are some great free software downloads available to you.

The first, is the Windows Live Essentials Suite.

It contains the new Windows Live Mail and Instant Messenger programs, as well as Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Parental Controls and Writer (for blogging).

This software is now separate from the operating system (it would have likely come with Windows 7) due to anti-trust issues. If you are looking for the built in instant messenger or mail program for Windows 7, you won’t find one and will have to download Windows Live Essentials to get the latest Windows versions of these products.

If you don’t have Windows 7, no problem, as t is worth a look by users of all three operating systems.

Head over to http://www.download.live.com/ to grab a copy. Don’t forget, you can pick and choose which items you wish to install.

The next piece of software worth a look is Microsoft Security Essentials. A free virus, malware and spyware solution from Microsoft. If you are tired of paying a yearly subscription for anti-virus, or are just plain dissasitisfied with your current provider, it’s worth a look.

Microsoft Security Essentials can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Lastly, if you are looking for a little extra protection to defend against spyware, look no further than to Microsoft Windows Defender. Microsoft’s free solution to combat spyware. This product will work with your existing anti-virus solution and provide you with that extra bit of additional protection you may just need. It generally works well with other security solutions, but if you do already have built-in spyware protection, you may want to test the compatibility of Windows Defender. You need to remember, running two spyware products, much like running any security software of the same type, at the same time, can cause issues.

Note: Windows 7 comes with Windows Defender already installed.

Microsoft Windows Defender can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx

If you own a previous version of Windows that is qualified for the upgrade version of Windows 7, such as Windows XP or Vista, you may want to install Windows 7 on a machine without one of those previous versions currently installed, in other words perform a clean install.

Prior to Windows Vista, this was very easy. All you had to do was start the install process and then during this process you would be prompted for your old copy of Windows to be inserted into the CD/DVD drive and then the installation would continue. It was simple enough and a system that worked.

With Vista, this all changed and you could no longer simply provide your old copy of Windows. You had to have a previous (upgrade compatible) version of Windows already installed. The same still unfortunately applies to Windows 7.

There is however, a way around this. It’s a bit more time consuming, but it gets the job done.

Step 1: Install Windows 7 normally with your upgrade disc (using the custom option), but do not enter your product key during setup. Make sure to deselect “automatically activate when I’m online” as well.

Step 2: After the first install is finished, run setup from your Windows 7 disc again, but this time choose “Upgrade” instead of custom (advanced) install.

Voila, you just upgraded from Windows 7 to… Windows 7?

Yes, that’s right, Windows 7 is an acceptable upgrade path to itself.

If you are a currently enrolled College or University student (full or part-time) you can grab an amazing deal for two great Microsoft products.

Windows 7 Professional Upgrade- $39.99 (+ $13 for a shipped copy)

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007- $64 (+$13 for a shipped copy)

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-ca/default.aspx

*Important information*

You must be a currently enrolled college or university student with a valid school email address. If you do not have such an address, other proof of enrollment can be supplied.