Money saving tips when buying computer software

Article: Money saving tips when buying computer software

Here are some money saving tips when buying computer software:

Buy a software that includes documentation, manuals, and free technical support for the first 30 days or to few months of owning. You may need help when a software is difficult to install in a particular operating system
platform. A technical personnel should help you on how
to install and using software via phone or email free
of charge.

Try before you buy. Many software vendors let you download
softwares from their websites for 30 days or so to use for
free. Some let you use the demo version. You buy a software
only when it's useful to you.

Compare softwares and their prices. If two same-priced
software packages can be used for the same tasks, and one
vendor gives one or two free upgrade for its software, it
would be a bargain.

In some cases, you don't need to buy a software, rent a
software instead. A business can rent a software application
from an application service provider, or ASP. An ASP company
installs, manages, and hosts its software at its own location.
Your business accesses and uses a software application via
Wide Area Network (WAN), or the Internet. It's more cost
efficient to rent than to buy, plus you get the latest
technology for your business.

Consider buying a combination of software and hardware in
one package. A computer, which is bundled with OEM licensing
of advanced version of operating system, and suites of useful
software, is a good deal.

Compare software's prices from reputable online software
sellers on the Internet to find the best deal. Use coupons
or rebates if available.

Many software vendors produce software with advanced
features every one or two years. Download a trial version
to test its new features, and you can skip purchasing it
if it doesn't make a big difference.

Use freewares or sharewares and save. A freeware is a free
software, and a shareware is a low cost software. There are
many resources on the Internet that provide freeware or
shareware for free download. You can use these software to
perform many tasks that non-free softwares do. By the way,
be sure to parse an unzipped freeware or shareware you
download with an anti-virus utility before using it. The
downloaded software is usually in compressed format; so,
you need to decompress or unzip it with an unzip utility
software which can be downloaded from the resources below.

Some of the download locations for freewares and sharewares are:

Freeware and shareware - tucows.com

Freeware - tbfis.jamesgrace.com

Freeware - thefreesite.com

Windows shareware, hard ware driver - winshareware.com

Cnet downloads - download.com

Free board kids games - kootweb.com/games.html

Free kids games - free-games-net.com

Money saving tips when buying computer software
By John Nguyen and Associates