franny181 said:
I have Microsoft Office 2003 on CD and i installed it onto my
computer. I got Word and Outlook and all but i really wanted
Powerpoint.
That is a popular program and i want to know why the cd didn't come
with it. It comes on the professional cd version but not the standard
one.
Why?
Perhaps you have Office 2003 Basic? That is a version only OEMs sell,
meaning you purchased it with your computer. Basic doesn't have PPT, but I'm
pretty sure all the other versions do.
As for why, well, it was a marketing thing, I'm sure. Many home users (who,
I assume, are the primary market for pre-installed versions of Office) need
only the very basics: a word processor, a spreadsheet, and an email program.
It's less expensive than versions with more applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx
If you purchased Office Basic, contact your computer mfg to see if you can
exchange it for a different version. If you can, I'd recommend just flat-out
returning it and purchasing Office Pro or Standard or whatever from a
regular retailer. See, OEM versions of software are tied to the computer
they came with -- so if you ever get rid of that computer, you can no longer
legally use that software, either. IMO, it's much better to purchase the
software retail so that you have the right to use it on this computer and,
once this one's long gone, later on a different computer if you wish.
