When I received my copy of Office v.X (student/teacher edition), I was surprised to find three Product keys for three installations "in the same household." My (first) question: does the "standard" and "professional" version also come wth three licenses (and does the 2004 student/teacher version, for that matter). Question 2: can someone tell me if there's any reason to pay MS money to get upgraded to either the "standard" or "professional" versions under the "Technology Guarantee" upgrade plan? I know about the Virtual PC with the "professional" (which becomes only a curiosity since a real PC doesn't cost much more than $130, not that there aren't other around the house). Also, does Virtual PC that comes with the professional version come with a Windows OS? Thanks.
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Question about MS Office licensing.
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from what i recall you can not upgrade the edu versions of office. you have to buy it all over again.kkikuchi said:
Standard Office X comes with 1 code and only allows you to run it on 1 computer at a time. If you start up a 2nd installation it'll find the 1st one on the network and won't run. Of course if you're computers aren't networked it's a nonissue.
Personally, I don't see any reason to upgrade Microsoft Office at all. Ever. Features that you actually use and need are hardly ever added. If you bought a new version every 10 years you'd see some imporovements. It's just a money grab for Microsoft.
And why bother with VPC anyway? If you needed it you would have already bought it. As a throw-in with Office it's not much more than a trojan horse.
Personally, I don't see any reason to upgrade Microsoft Office at all. Ever. Features that you actually use and need are hardly ever added. If you bought a new version every 10 years you'd see some imporovements. It's just a money grab for Microsoft.
And why bother with VPC anyway? If you needed it you would have already bought it. As a throw-in with Office it's not much more than a trojan horse.
Perhaps I should clarify.
I'm asking because I bought v.X during the period in which MS offers a free upgrade (+ S/H) to same-"edition" Office 2004 (even the student/teacher edition). For an additional $90, one can "upgrade" to the 2004 "standard edition" or for for $120, one can "upgrade" to the 2004 "professional edition". To anyone who already has it, does the 2004 version require activation like later Windows Office versions? And geez, the network polling for like-product-keyed installations seems particularly nasty, so it would seem not worth it (even though there's only one Mac in the house).
I'm asking because I bought v.X during the period in which MS offers a free upgrade (+ S/H) to same-"edition" Office 2004 (even the student/teacher edition). For an additional $90, one can "upgrade" to the 2004 "standard edition" or for for $120, one can "upgrade" to the 2004 "professional edition". To anyone who already has it, does the 2004 version require activation like later Windows Office versions? And geez, the network polling for like-product-keyed installations seems particularly nasty, so it would seem not worth it (even though there's only one Mac in the house).
kkikuchi said:
I'm in the same promotion. I just bought the Office 2004 Student Teacher for free. I was tempted to go to the Pro version, but since it includes VPC 7, it won't come out until late this summer.
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Horrortaxi said:
I agreee there is just not enough features to make me want to upgrade, now if I happen to come across it for free I will gladly upgrade.
At $7 through my University...I'm ready to upgrade! Though I agree, I went 5 years without upgrading...when I did--I discovered that a bunch of stuff sucked (like the built-in resume templates)...though a bunch of other stuff was better (like appearance).