Reason why Office Small Business 03 wasn't upgraded?

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Hannah312

A previous administrator upgraded every computer in our office to run on
Office Small Business Edition 2003 -- except her own machine. She didn't
document her reasons and she left on bad terms so I can't ask her myself.
Does anyone know of a reason why she wouldn't have upgraded from Home Edition
2000? I want to, but worry that I'm missing something. . .

Any help is appreciated!
 
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Gyorgy Moldova [MCSE+I, MVP]

ok. so Home Edition does not exist for Office, there is a "Basic" edition,
though I suspect it is Office Standard (chances are, in the Home Use
Program)

the main difference between Office Standard and SBS is the inclusion of
different apps.

You can find the app matrix at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx (it's ok if
it's for 2003/2000, the apps are the same mostly)

hth
g
 
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Hannah312

G-
Thanks for helping me get my terminology straight. So the operating system
is XP Home Edition, and it's running Office 2000 Standard. I get that the
apps on Standard and SBE are different -- any other reasons you can think of
that she might not have upgraded to SBE? Compatibility issues with older
documents, databases?

I'm probably reading way too much into her decision not to install SBE, right?

H.
 
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George Nicholson

I'm probably reading way too much into her decision not to install SBE,
right?
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Yeah, probably. Compatabilty, etc. are pretty much non-issues between 2000
and 2003.

Some thoughts:
1) maybe she didn't have enough free disk space (or didn't want to devote
disk space) for Publisher?

2) she might have decided to let everyone else be Office 2003 guinea pigs
and do her own upgrade later (after any bugs had been discovered & solved by
others).

3) she was perfectly happy with Office 2000 Standard and felt no need to
upgrade (blasphemer!!!!)

HTH,
--
George Nicholson

Remove 'Junk' from return address.
 
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Hannah312

Thanks George! Now I can upgrade without fear :)

George Nicholson said:
Yeah, probably. Compatabilty, etc. are pretty much non-issues between 2000
and 2003.

Some thoughts:
1) maybe she didn't have enough free disk space (or didn't want to devote
disk space) for Publisher?

2) she might have decided to let everyone else be Office 2003 guinea pigs
and do her own upgrade later (after any bugs had been discovered & solved by
others).

3) she was perfectly happy with Office 2000 Standard and felt no need to
upgrade (blasphemer!!!!)

HTH,
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