MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Fri May 9 17:25:14 CDT 2003
They changed the option, you can only get a downgrade if you have a minimum 5 unit volume license. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/downloads/downgrade_rights.doc http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/downloads/downgrade_chart.doc or search for downgrade http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/volbrief.asp That leaves you with 2 options. 1. Buy from a reseller. They usually pick up multiple copies from governments or bankruptcies (a lot of dot com's out there) Try places like http://www.viosoftware.com Office 2000 pro around $400 US or developers edition $ 600 Buying off E-Bay may get you lower prices but you may get a CD and directions to a warez site for a key hack. 2. MS Part #: 534-02125 - MSDN Universal 7.0 Subscription The MSDN Universal includes nearly $48,000 worth of software. Developer's versions of Office 97/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/2000/XP, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Windows Server, .NET beta/2000, Exchange Server 5.5/2000, BizTalk Server, Project 2002 and Visio 2002 are included (Plus much more!). You will receive 12 months of Subscriptions services including monthly and beta shipments, access to the Subscriber's web site, 4 technical support incidents, Price for Professional edition is around $1100 and with a $300 mail rebate on DVD purchase. You may have to download old versions of office from MSDN site as ISO images and burn to a CD. Mark Whittinghill wrote: >Does M$ have a downgrade option to get ODE 2000 if you have the XP version? >I looked on the site and can't figure out the legalese. > >Thanks, > >Mark Whittinghill >Symphony Information Services >612-333-1311 >mwhittinghill at symphonyinfo.com > >_______________________________________________ >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >