Office 2003 Standard Trial Version Conversion

[William Faulkner]

I am using a trial version of Office 2003 Standard which expires on Jan31.
When I
click on the pop-up invite to convert I get to a Microsoft site and from
there I am refrred to Licence Technologies Group. Their site can only offer
me the Student Version for 161,60 Euros. They say it's because the version I
downloaded from Micrsoft site is the same, although data on my computer says
it's the standard version. I have been trying for several weeks to get a
straightforward , no-nonsence
answer fro Microsoft legal and other departments to one question: can I
legally accept this conversion deal triggered of by Microsoft. I am no longer
a student and I don't want to infringe any licence regulations. Thank you for
any help!
William

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi William,

The Office 2003 Student & Teacher's Edition is a special licensing of the MS Office 2003 Standard product. They are the same
product, but the S&T edition allows installation on up to 3 computers, the standard one up to 2.

Technically, someone in the house should be a student for acquiring the Student/Teacher's license. The 'do you qualify' page here
may be helpful to you:
http://microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/students/doyouqualify.mspx


If you prefer, you can purchase the Office 2003 product of your choice from a retailer of choice rather than convert the trial
edition. Purchasing an Office 2003 product now should also qualify you for a free/low cost upgrade copy of Office 2007.
http://microsoft.com/athome/techguarantee/worldwide.mspx
Even if you do not plan on using the 2007 edition for now, redeeming the copy to use later can be worthwhile.

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I am using a trial version of Office 2003 Standard which expires on Jan31.
When I
click on the pop-up invite to convert I get to a Microsoft site and from
there I am refrred to Licence Technologies Group. Their site can only offer
me the Student Version for 161,60 Euros. They say it's because the version I
downloaded from Micrsoft site is the same, although data on my computer says
it's the standard version. I have been trying for several weeks to get a
straightforward , no-nonsence
answer fro Microsoft legal and other departments to one question: can I
legally accept this conversion deal triggered of by Microsoft. I am no longer
a student and I don't want to infringe any licence regulations. Thank you for
any help!
William >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[William Faulkner]

Hi Bob!
Many thanks for your response. It corresponds in fact to what I had imagined
but at the same time as Office 2007 is selling for $149 I did wonder if
Microsoft was doing a special "sales" deal... but nobody would reply to me
before you did. Thank you very much indeed! I shall now decide which software
to buy. Only thing is I just
received Wrd and Excel 2003 manuals for Christmas !!!!
Best regards
William

 

[misterboat]

I'm not sure if you can help with this or not. i purchased Microsoft office
Student and Teacher 2003. My son (student) and I (teacher) have been using it
without any problems (we purchased the full product so we didn't have to deal
with the trial version) I recently went to edit a word document and the
system tells me I must upgrade to the full product. I contacted Microsoft to
get the product key to enter (I couldn't find my receipt and figured they'd
have records of it) They told me I would have to contact customer support and
pay $49.00 for assistance.

Any suggestions?

 

[Bob I]

You should already have the product key. Thats how you installed it
originally. If you haven't formatted the system you may try recovering
the one you used from the system with the Belarc advisor software.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html