Microsoft Office 2007 2 Licenses?

Tommy B · 12 Jul 2007 at 13:49

Hi,

Can you buy a version of Office Home/Student which comes with 2 licenses?

Cheers

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 14:45

Doubt it. You'd need two copies or get a 2 user licence from MS, if they even do licences for just 2 PCs?

marc2003 · 12 Jul 2007 at 14:51

the student edition of 2003 can be installed on 3 pcs. not sure about 2007.

edit: doh, missed 2007 in the thread title....

stoofa · 12 Jul 2007 at 15:01

What components of Office 2007 are you after?
The Home/Student edition of Office 2007 can be owned by anyone using the application in a non-profit making environment (so home, not in an office or business etc).
It's available for around £80 and can be installed on 3 computers.
However you should note that this package does NOT ship with Outlook 2007.
It comes with:

Word 2007
Excel 2007
PowerPoint 2007
OneNote 2007

Tommy B · 12 Jul 2007 at 17:57

stoofa said:
What components of Office 2007 are you after?
The Home/Student edition of Office 2007 can be owned by anyone using the application in a non-profit making environment (so home, not in an office or business etc).
It's available for around £80 and can be installed on 3 computers.
However you should note that this package does NOT ship with Outlook 2007.
It comes with:

Word 2007
Excel 2007
PowerPoint 2007
OneNote 2007

That is absolutely perfect.

I need a copy for my laptop to take to uni. My dad is a GP and fancies the newer version having just bought a new PC. Neither of us use Outlook.

That should be great.

Cheers

Energize · 12 Jul 2007 at 18:11

You can get open office for £0.

Caged · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:05

Open Office is crap though.

SilverTongue · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:08

open office has the same functionality of ms office, just because it's open source doesn't make it crap

Caged · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:11

No, the fact that it's garbage does that. It does not have the same functionality as Microsoft Office does.

SilverTongue · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:12

ok then, what makes it garbage then....

Caged · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:15

Documents don't look exactly the same as they do in Office. This alone is the reason why I could never use anything other than Office. I don't want to try doing some collaborative work where the file gets mutilated every time I edit it.

SilverTongue · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:17

thats cos they're not the same program, if your using open office all the time not switching between the 2 then u will get the same look everytime

Caged · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:18

I know that, hence why to me it's a heap of crap.

SilverTongue · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:25

that doesn't make the program crap tho, the program is good it's just the compatibilty of ms office rearing it's ugly head....

Caged · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:31

I don't really want to turn this into an Open Office debate, but for most people it's simply not an option. Very few people would have an office suite and not share those files with other people. I personally need compatibility with Office files, which is why I have Office. When people try Open Office and it messes up their formatting, they aren't going to blame Microsoft for that, they're going to uninstall Open Office.

There's nothing wrong with the program by itself (apart from the way it doesn't center the document when you zoom out, but the authors seem to have some anal viewpoint that left aligning it is the way forward), but who uses an office suite and doesn't share their files?

SilverTongue · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:34

it's simply a case of each to their own rele....i just hate seeing people knocking open source software unless they have a valid reason for it. i can see your point, thanks for explaining lol

Burnsy2023 · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:54

I don't like to use Open office, not becuase it's necessarily crap (although Caged does have an argument against), but becuase MS office is so much better, especially when you have 2007.

No other office suite can match it.

Burnsy