You can also look at an openlicense which starts at 5 licenses. See
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/howtoacquire.mspx#EJB for more information.
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After furious head scratching, Tim asked:
| Microsoft offers site licenses but those are really meant for large
| companies and would not at all be cost effective for such a small
| group as yours. They also sell educational licenses but, again, I
| think it has to be for a large group (perhaps your school system
| could look into that). I believe your only realistic choice would be
| purchasing individual licenses either from the laptop vendor or from
| a store like CompUSA. But I would also check on the web for a
| reputable vendor that sells software at "educational" discounts. I
| don't know what (if any) price break you would get on Office but it's
| worth a try.
|
| Keep in mind that if you purchase Office pre-installed from the laptop
| vendor, the Office license must stay with that laptop forever. That
| means if in the future you were to upgrade to a newer laptop, you
| cannot transfer the Office license to that new laptop.
|
| Also, unless you have a hard requirement for Office 2007, you might
| want to check out Open Office (
www.openoffice.org). It's perfectly
| fine for schools, reads/writes Word-compatible documents (among other
| features), and, best of all, is free.
|
| Tim
|
| || We are trying to purchase new laptops for our school. If we get
|| Vista on them and we need office 2007, how do we order that so we
|| can put it on multiple laptops? Do you know the price range?
