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241285 2004-06-03 00:41:00 Hi guy's I'm thinking about buying MS Office 2003 Professional (Academic Retail version).

It has: Word 2003, Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, Powerpoint 2003, Access 2003, Publisher 2003 and Business Contact Manager.

Best of all it doesn't come with a hefty price tag, which is really great.

Now my question is... under the MS license agreement thing, would I be able to install this version of Office 2003 on more than 1 machine. I have 5 PC's on my home network .

As I understand it, academic versions are not for commercial use, so does that mean I would be able to install it on my home network. For the record the PC's I want to istalll the package onto, belong to 2 students and a teacher (dad has a laptop as well which he uses) plus my own PC of course.

Your comments and views appreciated.

cheers
chiefnz 		chiefnz (545)
241286 2004-06-03 00:45:00 I don't know the legality of it , but if it was me I'd go ahead without asking.
Jack 		JJJJJ (528)
241287 2004-06-03 00:49:00 hmmm....just reading this ms propaganda i have sitting here, Only lists what they call the teacher and student edition, says that it can be installed on 3 home pc's as long as at least one student resides there.

No idea if teacher and student edition is some sort of overseas equivalent to the local academic version.

Something to look into. 		metla (154)
241288 2004-06-03 01:40:00 What about OpenOffice.org????

No silly licence stuff to worry about. 		rmcb (164)
241289 2004-06-03 01:53:00 Hi Chief Certainly looks a good buy. It is the full bells and whistles on all the mentiond programs. I would hate to overwrite my full Word 2000 with an abbreviated or doctored Word 2003. Scouse (83)
241290 2004-06-03 02:05:00 AFAIK, and based on Office XP the EULA limits you to use for Academic purposes only, and to installation on one PC plus on one portable PC used by the owner of the software.

While you could easily install it on more than 2 PCs, it will not activate on more than two PCs, so that would be useless.

Student and Teachers version ($199) I believe will activate on 3 PCs. 		godfather (25)
241291 2004-06-03 02:24:00 Godfather is correct
Student & Teacher Edition 2003 (I have the box in front of me) includes only Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, and may be installed on up to 3 home PCs. This is the $199 version.
It is still excellent value and all that most people would need
When installing you can choose which modules of a previously installed version (e.g. Access 97 in my case) not to uninstall/overwrite 		rodb (1561)
241292 2004-06-03 11:43:00 Thanks for the replies guys,

Just a note, the version I want to buy IS NOT the student/teacher academic version. It's the Office 2003 Professional (Academic Retail Version)

I don't know what Academic Retail is supposed to mean but I had a look at the OEM version of Office 2003 and from what I can see they have the same products on them.

Could it be that there is just a difference in the terms of use between these 2 products? Or maybe as previously stated they don't include Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and Business Contact Manager in their full capacity.

I guess this warrants further investigation.

cheers
chiefnz 		chiefnz (545)
241293 2004-06-03 21:03:00 Its the full version, and its the terms of use under the EULA .

There is no difference in the functionality of the actual software between any versions .

BUT - you still cannot install it on more than 2 PCs, it will fail to activate and stop working .

You are not supposed to use it for any commercial (non educational) purposes . 		godfather (25)
241294 2004-06-03 23:20:00 Academic has Access the database software.

If you read through the whole EULA in both of the products you'll probably find some clause saying that only a student can actually use the software. 		-=JM=- (16)
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