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Miss Perspicacia Tick
sandi81968 said:For your information I bought this edition of Office 2000
Professional at our local Community College when I was enrolled
there...Also, it asks me for the product code not an "activation
code" You did not have to be so snippy...and I don't appreciate
being accused of being a "thief" just because I am not stating myself
in the appropriate computer terms...
1) I never accused you of being anything, but you *WILL* be accused of
piracy if you don't use the correct terminology. Downloading is what you do
from a network (e.g. the internet) *NOT* what you do when copying software
from a CD to your hard disk.
2) You have an Academic licence. There are strict rules regarding the use
of Academic licences, the main one being that your eligibility for the
licence terminates when you cease to be a student.
3) If it /had/ been a working licence you'd have been SOL as MS
terminated all support for Office 2000 nearly a year ago (30th June 2004).
4) It asked you for an installation key - the product code (ID) is
something entirely different.
5) Depending on the version, it may very well have also been an
activation key, I don't know. As I stated before, those versions that
contained SP1 /did/ require activation.
In short, if you want Office on your new computer, you'd need to purchase
the full version of 2003 in whatever flavour you desired.