[dba-Tech] Office 2003

But does the student/teacher version include Access?  Occurs to me that I 
have a student in the house with an I.D.  But I think he needs Access.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:24 AM
Subject: RE: [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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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