What is a HOME-USER EULA?

[Chaz]

I received a free copy of Office Professional 2003 after attending one of
the launch events. While all indications were that this was a full license,
the EULA on this product says that it is a Home User EULA and it can be
loaded on "one personal computer or portable device located within your
home." I expected that I'd be able to load this on one desktop and one
laptop. In fact, the packaging of the software refers me to go to
www.microsoft.com/office/eula to review a copy of the license agreement.
There is no Home User EULA there and the Office Professional 2003 agreement
listed has the normal one desktop, one notebook language.

Anyone have insights on this? The product would not activate on my notebook
and the reps at the product activation line don't know what's going on -
they are unaware of any separate license for the free product. The
invitation clearly says that the Office Pro and One Note package is a $700
value. That leads me to believe that I should have received a product with
an off the shelf EULA.

 

[Gyorgy Moldova]

Anyone may correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you received a special "home use only" shrink-wrapped license, which's EULA only allows installation-activation one home desktop/portable device.

Hth,
G.

----- Chaz wrote: -----

I received a free copy of Office Professional 2003 after attending one of
the launch events. While all indications were that this was a full license,
the EULA on this product says that it is a Home User EULA and it can be
loaded on "one personal computer or portable device located within your
home." I expected that I'd be able to load this on one desktop and one
laptop. In fact, the packaging of the software refers me to go to
www.microsoft.com/office/eula to review a copy of the license agreement.
There is no Home User EULA there and the Office Professional 2003 agreement
listed has the normal one desktop, one notebook language.

Anyone have insights on this? The product would not activate on my notebook
and the reps at the product activation line don't know what's going on -
they are unaware of any separate license for the free product. The
invitation clearly says that the Office Pro and One Note package is a $700
value. That leads me to believe that I should have received a product with
an off the shelf EULA.

 

[Chaz]

The issue being that what I received is neither a full version of the
software or a $700 value as promised. I'm trying to determine if this is a
packaging mistake or if Microsoft is not living up to a commitment. Has
anyone gone to the event, used the voucher and gotten a true, full version
of the software?

Anyone may correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that you received a

special "home use only" shrink-wrapped license, which's EULA only allows
installation-activation one home desktop/portable device.

 

[Mercury]

You got a full version for free that can be installed on one computer.
What's your beef? Seems pretty simple to me.

 

[Chaz]

"The beef" is that I took a full day off on the promise of receiving a full
package worth $700. Since I'm going to have to spend money on the software
for a my laptop anyway, what I got has marginal value. A single system
license is not worth the full retail price as they advertised. There was no
reference to limits on this software versus the retail versions. I'm out a
day's pay based on Microsoft's misrepresentation.