[dba-Tech] Office 2003

In fact what it says is that there has to be a student to teacher in the
house to USE the copy.  They are not supposed to sell it to you unless that
is true and are supposed to require a school id.  I bought student licenses
for XP and visual studio .net and I had to fax my student id to the online
store before they would fill the order.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DJK(John)
Robinson
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:50 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Office 2003


I'm a bit rusty on the small print, but I think it's legal for anyone to BUY
an educational version.  Installing and USING it however may be a different
matter - which is what the licence probably covers.  I'd be interested to
know how you and your friends qualify in this respect.

PC World?  Shame on you!  ;-)

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: 23 January 2005 03:33
> To: Dba-Tech; dba-OT
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Office 2003
> 
> 
> I did a very unusual thing today - I bought an actual real
> legal licenced copy of Office...
> 
> We were in a shop (PC world, sorry I'll go and wash my mouth
> out now) and we saw this incredible offer: instead of £350 
> for Standard Edition with one licence, or £150 for the 
> upgrade version, buy the same product for £80 with 3 licences 
> because it's the educational version. There are NO 
> DIFFERENCES except you get 3 licences instead of 1 and it's 
> less than a quarter of the price.
> 
> My dad works in a school, and happened to have his ID on him,
> but we weren't asked to prove that we were students or 
> teachers or anything, so I think I'm going to have to go back 
> next week with orders for some friends... So if anyone's 
> interested, and fancies their chances, it might be worth 
> giving this a look... for your money you get Excel, Word, 
> Outlook and Powerpoint, but that's more than enough to be 
> getting on with for most of us...
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
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