[THIN] Re: MS Office
- From: Dogers <dogers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:33:51 +0000
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:09:31 +0100, Jeremy Thomas <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> I asked this to MS licensing about 3 months ago, and this is the answer I
> got:
>
> If you use a component of MS Office Professional (like Access), then ALL
> programs in the Office suite no longer count as Office Standard, but as
> Office Professional, on that machine. And any user that uses one of these
> programs therefore needs an MS Office Professional license â a standard one
> won't do. Even if you use MS Office Professional and don't install Access,
> therefore making it "like" MS Office Standard, you still need a professional
> license for it.
Say what?! Whoever told you that is a loony! If you buy 25 Office Std
licenses, and 3 Access licenses, you have to junk the lot and buy 25
Office Pro licenses?!? I bet MS would LOVE that to happen!
Andrew
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