I need to know what I need to do if I have a qualifying
product for upgrade product that is a more current edition.
This is what I mean. I have Windows XP which comes with
Word 2002 and I have MS-Office 2000 Upgrade. When I try to
use the Upgrade (MS-Office 2000), it does not allow me to
install because it could not find a qualifying product.
Help...
1) What does this have to do with MS Publisher, Microsoft's flagship DTP
application?!
2) Windows XP does /NOT/ "come with Word 2002". You bought a computer
with Windows XP and the dealer chose to include Word. No version of Windows
has /EVER/ included any MS Office application.
3) I'm afraid that, if you no longer have the original product you used
to qualify for the Office 2000 upgrade, you are not entitled to use it - the
licence is null and void. You see, an upgrade is only half a licence. When
you use a product to qualify it 'supplies' the other half and its licence
becomes 'assimilated' into the upgrade and, from that moment on, they become
inseperable. If you no longer have the original product you used to qualify
then you are no longer entitled to use the software. If you want Office on
your new system you must purchase it again. You can use your 2002 as a
qualifying product but you must remember that you cannot get rid of Office
2000 if you wish to continue to use 2003.
A newer product /cannot/ be used as a qualifying product for an older one a)
because it didn't exist (obviously) when 2000 was released and b) it
(obviously) wasn't the original product you used to qualify.
