Canadian prices for Office 2010

A mixed bag of price changes for Office 2010 in Canada.

It’s taken a while but the Office 2010 prices in Canada are now known, mostly, courtesy of Amazon’s Canadian site.

Office 2010 Home and Student is about the same price as in the USA while Home and Business edition is roughly 15% cheaper when you head north of the 49^th parallel. Office 2010 Professional is about 20% more expensive for Canadians.

The same prices apply to both the English and French language versions of Office 2010. Both versions contain English and French proofing tools (spell check, grammar and thesaurus).

Here are the results comparing the US prices with Canadian prices for Office 2010. We’ve done similar comparisons for the United Kingdom and Australia.

We have not included the ‘Product Key’ versions of Office 2010 because we consider them to be bad value for almost any customer and strongly recommend against purchase.

Calculation Details:

UK retail prices from Amazon CA. US retail prices from Microsoft.

Interbank Exchange Rate at 2 June 2010: 1.04894 plus 2% to simulate higher credit card rate.

Additional Shipping (over)estimate: $3.00

Price comparisons are especially tricky in Canada since there’s such a mix of sales tax options depending on the province. We’ve compared the pre-tax prices in both US and Canada.

See Also

• Canadian prices for Office 2013
• Getting the right Office 2010 at the lowest price
• Office 2010 Aussie prices
• Office 2010 in the UK at more reasonable prices
• Office 2010 price increases