license question

J

Joe

I know that Office 2007 Home & Student Edition doesn't require a full-
time student or teacher in the household, as did 2003 Student &
Teacher Edition.

Thing is, I would prefer to use the 2003 version, yet there is no
student or teacher in my household. Does the relaxed licensing
requirement now apply to version 2003 as well, or would I have to use
the newer version to be compliant.

j
 
R

Ray Rogers

It's not likely that Microsoft will change the licensing at this stage, the
2007 version is different than 2003 in that 2007 doesn't come with Outlook,
but with One Note. So it is essentially a different product.

That being said though, <snipped my own lines> No, I'm saying no more, I did
have another comment here but decided against it, you'll have to guess ;-)
 
J

Joe Hunter

Thanks for confirmation that the information isn't posted yet, JoAnne,

I've been trying for a couple of days now to get the information fro
MS Tech Support (an oxymoron, really, because the best place to ge
information is from MVPs such as yourself).

They keep sending me links that don't do the trick. One path that wa
provided several times took me to the 2003 EULAs. Another pat
started off looking like it was going to go the the 2007 material, an
even had a link for the Home and Student edition.

However, when you clicked on the link it took you to a page with
pulldown menu where you had to select your product. Unfortunately, n
component "packages" were listed, only individual components such a
Word or Excel. And the information related to useage of the specifi
component, not any usage for the package as the earlier poste
requested.

You would think that with these two releases, Vista and Office, in th
works for som many years, they would have gotten the informatio
together in time. But while searching, I found numerous bad links an
equally bad web pages.

A logical place to include it would be on the page where the differen
packages are compared:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101757671033.aspx
but alas, it wasn't there either
 
J

Joe Hunter

BTW, I finally managed to find a PDF that a MS tech rep referred to in a
response (although she never bothered to tell me where it was).

http://download.microsoft.com/downl.../OfficeSystem2007_Partner_Licensing_Guide.pdf

It relates to what MS calls their partner program. Whether or not it
actually is relevant to normal retail purchases or not has yet to be
determined.

But it does say that an FPP user (whatever that is) can have three
activations with the one license, and an OEM user only one.

Aha! I read the fine print ;-) FPP = Full Packaged Product.
 
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