Entourage vs. Apple Mail

[Bill Bryson]

Maybe the key word is "honest" resellers.

_NO_ vendor, as far as I know, ever asks for a student ID when someone
buys the student and teacher edition of MS Office. I know people who
have purchased this edition from several Apple Stores, several CompUSA
locations, Amazon.com, MacMall, and others. Not one has requested ID.
There's no indication whatsoever that Microsoft requires a valid ID.

 

[Mike Rosenberg]

Maybe the key word is "honest" resellers.

Maybe, but then you'd be saying that every last reseller I'm aware of is
dishonest. Or, to put it another way, find an example of a reseller
that's ever requested ID from someone purchasing the Student and Teacher
Edition of MS Office. Does _anyone_ reading this have an example? I
strongly suspect that MS doesn't impose this requirement on its
resellers in the first place.

 

[mmmmark]

Maybe, but then you'd be saying that every last reseller I'm aware of is
dishonest. Or, to put it another way, find an example of a reseller
that's ever requested ID from someone purchasing the Student and Teacher
Edition of MS Office. Does _anyone_ reading this have an example? I
strongly suspect that MS doesn't impose this requirement on its
resellers in the first place.

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I remember a time when they DID ask for ID, but in the last five years at
least, I've never heard of any retailer asking for ID.

 

[Nathan Herring [MSFT]]

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/howtobuy.aspx?pid=qualifie
dUser>

or more generally

<http://www.microsoft.com/Education/Eligible.mspx>

I can easily find the Windows Office EULAs, including the Student & Teacher
edition EULAs, at <http://www.microsoft.com/office/eula/en.mspx>. I'm
looking to see if we have a link for the Mac Office EULAs. (I'm pretty sure
they're available on the web, I just don't know the URL offhand.)

-nh

 

[Nathan Herring [MSFT]]

Transcribed the URL incorrectly, sorry.

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/howtobuy/howtobuy.aspx?pid
=qualifiedUser>

 

[mmmmark]

If it IS online, it is a relatively new development because I was following
a thread last year I believe about this very subject.

 

[Per Rønne]

Newsreading ability--which while limited in certain ways, for me is worth
the convenience of having everything in a single program instead of running
the Mail/iCal/Address Book combo *plus* a newsreader.

I use Entourage too but for news I prefer MacSOUP.

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

I use Entourage too but for news I prefer MacSOUP.

I too prefer a dedicated newsreader for 'serious' newsgroup work (although I
use MTNW rather than MacSOUP). However, for these newsgroups I use the
newsreader built into Entourage simply for the sake of convenience.

 

[Per Rønne]

I too prefer a dedicated newsreader for 'serious' newsgroup work (although I
use MTNW rather than MacSOUP). However, for these newsgroups I use the
newsreader built into Entourage simply for the sake of convenience.

Occasionally, I too use something else. 40tudie Dialog when being on a
Windows computer .