Office 2003 - WHERE?!?!

penski · 1 May 2008 at 15:02

Long story short, employers have been bought out, new owners' network policy says we can't have Office 2007 because they won't support it on their network.

Need to roll back to 2003 and pronto.

Problem - only got two discs.

Got two dozen retail 2007 packs purchased by my predecessor.

MS won't 'swap' them for 2003 keys because they are retail packs.

Can't find 2003 ANYWHERE.

What's the best option?

We need 25 installations...

Cheers,

*n

Burnsy2023 · 1 May 2008 at 15:08

You can use the downgrade rights from 2007. You can get 2003 media and keys from a corporate reseller.

Burnsy

apatia77 · 1 May 2008 at 15:11

Burnsy

Sometimes you surprise me with all the small print knowledge

penski · 1 May 2008 at 15:25

Burnsy2023 said:
You can use the downgrade rights from 2007. You can get 2003 media and keys from a corporate reseller.

Burnsy

I called MS and they said we couldn't downgrade as they were retail copies.

:/

*n

Muffin` · 1 May 2008 at 16:41

penski said:
I called MS and they said we couldn't downgrade as they were retail copies.

:/

*n

is it home/student or business/proffesional?

penski · 1 May 2008 at 17:02

Some small business, some pro, some project pro.

*n

Muffin` · 1 May 2008 at 17:12

I would have thought that they do come with downgrade rights - did you try just once? Microsoft call centres are notorious for differing opinion for different call centre workers.

Microsoft said:
Which 2007 Microsoft Office system suites are eligible to downgrade to Office 2003 suites?
Customers who have licensed Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 are eligible to downgrade to Office Professional Enterprise 2003 and all previous versions as described above. Customers who have licensed Microsoft Office Standard 2007 are eligible to downgrade to Office Standard Edition 2003 and all previous versions of Office Standard Edition.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...fd-7f4e-46cb-8117-8275f7683d3f&DisplayLang=en

Doesn’t state whether that’s network keys or retail, wouldn't of thought it would matter :s

Project pro = Project Professional? If so that should also be eligible.

Edit* hang on - FPP = Full Package Products as in... retail? :eek:

#Chri5# · 1 May 2008 at 22:19

I thought downgrade rights only came with paper licenses (rather than retail)...

Tomsk · 1 May 2008 at 22:39

Any reason you can't sell the retail packs, buy corporate office 2007 license then downgrade.