Power Point viewer 2003 Liscense agreement

[MarcusInMaryland]

Hey guys,

I am new to the viewer and we are trying to disperse a packaged presentation
with it. The issue is that that the viewer in 2003 asks for acceptance of a
liscense agreement before it plays, this could cause issues with some of our
staff and I was hoping there was a trigger to turn this off. Or maybe is this
not present in the viewer for XP?

 

[Sonia]

The EULA message cannot be bypassed. It is a legal requirement from Microsoft.
There is not Viewer for XP. There is a PowerPoint 97 Viewer and it doesn't
require license agreement, but it won't recognize the new features in PowerPoint
2003, so might not be a good solution for you.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Timothy L]

That isn't possible and would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA) for the Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer 2003.

The Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 end user license agreement must be displayed for the user to accept it.
If no end user license agreement is presented during installation or the first run of Microsoft PowerPoint
Viewer 2003, by downloading/using it the user agrees that the software is subject to the terms of the end user
license agreement that they already accepted with their previous installation (or run) of Microsoft PowerPoint
Viewer 2003, with Microsoft as the Licensor.

If on the second (third, forth, etc.) install or run of Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 the user has already
agreed to the end user license agreement and the user's system has been modified to reflect this, then the end
user license agreement is no longer displayed when the user runs Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003. In this
case, the above paragraph would be true.


What are these issues that you are concerned about?

Keep in mind that with ANY software a user installs, there is some sort of a license agreement in which they
must agree to. Even the software that your staff already has on each of their computers has some sort of a
license agreement which they have already agreed to. Is their any reason why this situation is any different?

 

[Sonia]

The difference here is that the software IS NOT being installed. It is being
run from the CD and nothing is being transferred to the user's system. Most
people who distribute autorun CDs that use the Viewer would like to prevent the
confusion that is caused by the EULA message, which mistakenly makes it appear
that something is being installed on the system.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[MarcusInMaryland]

Hi Tim,

The issues are simply this, we have a site lisence for MS Office XP
and 2003, it encompasses our whole organization. We are trying to distribute
required training for HR and some people here like to raise issues with this
stuff. I personally would like the publish to HTML solution and be done with
it, but was not able to get that authorized. I will go with the 97 veiwer for
the non-display of EULA, as it provides enough functionality for what we need
and still has the use of trigger switches in it as well.

As for the rest, the developers have agreed to the EULA when using the
software and we are only dispersing a reader for it and not a functional
package. I do understand That others do it but it has never been clear why
because it has no write functionality like the others do.

 

[MarcusInMaryland]

Thanks. This is the path I will use.

The EULA message cannot be bypassed. It is a legal requirement from Microsoft.
There is not Viewer for XP. There is a PowerPoint 97 Viewer and it doesn't
require license agreement, but it won't recognize the new features in PowerPoint
2003, so might not be a good solution for you.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[MarcusInMaryland]

That is the issue. No consistancy, but a very worthy note. Thank you all for
the help I never knew these boards existed, very handy.