Office 2007 Student or Basic?

Mike S

Mike S

Mike S

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Does anyone know if the licensing for the student and teacher edition of Office 2007 has been tightened up as I'm neither a student nor a teacher but would like cheap copies of word, excel and powerpoint? :)

Also, will either the student or basic editions allow installation on two PC's as I'd like office on my desktop and my laptop but would feel aggrieved at having to pay for it twice especially as I'd only ever be using one version at a time.?

Cheers
 
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Mike S said:
Does anyone know if the licensing for the student and teacher edition of Office 2007 has been tightened up as I'm neither a student nor a teacher but would like cheap copies of word, excel and powerpoint? :)

Also, will either the student or basic editions allow installation on two PC's as I'd like office on my desktop and my laptop but would feel aggrieved at having to pay for it twice especially as I'd only ever be using one version at a time.?

Cheers
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From what I remember you are allowed to install the copy on a laptop you own as well as a desktop, at least thats how it was with xp.
 
Is that just for the student version or also for the basic edition?

I'm mostly worried that the rules will be different from xp given how MS are tightening up the licensing for Vista.
 
Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student 2007 - Retail (79G-00007)
£84.99
£99.86 inc VAT

As it says Home and Student does this mean its also for home only use even if you arn't a student? In the description it does say "Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users". The only mention of student is in the title, where it also mentions "Home".

Can OCUK confirm the licensing on this for us? As far as I can tell its valid for a home user who is NOT a student to buy and use it legally, but I'd like to be sure.
 
Are there license restrictions to Office Home and Student 2007?
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Yes. Office Home and Student 2007 is licensed only for noncommercial use by households. It cannot be used in commercial (business) situations.

Do I need to have a student in my household in order to qualify to purchase and use Office Home and Student 2007?
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No.
 
draken said:
Yes. Office Home and Student 2007 is licensed only for noncommercial use by households. It cannot be used in commercial (business) situations.



No.
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That's good news at least. Any idea on whether I'll be able to install the same copy on my desktop and laptop?
 
It can be installed on any three computers - the same as the old student edition.
My wife is a teacher, so we used to get the student version and it was installed on my machine, her machine and our laptop.
We haven't gone for this version this time around as if I remember correctly the Home/Student edition doesn't include Outlook.
 
Don't need to - it's called the Student/Home edition this time around so you don't actually need to have a student or teacher in the household.
However make sure the package comes with everything you need - Home/Student edition contains:

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
OneNote
 
The package is pretty poor since it doesn't contain programs like access and publisher like a lot of students need, word isn't a big improvement over notepad really so they should at least add the other 2 in.
 
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Indeed - the reason i wouldn't buy it (and which has annoyed me enormously) is that it's missing Outlook :(

Idea obviously being to stop businesses getting it for cheap, but a PITA for power users :(
 
Dureth said:
Surely as a home user your dreams and needs are met by Windows Mail?! ;)
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That is exactly the reasoning behind this decision.
Most people won't actually use all of the features of Outlook, however did use a lot of Outlook Express features.
The "built in" mail is basically Outlook Express Plus - so they expect most home users to use that.

Word is a major improvement over Wordpad - most people don't even begin to touch the surface of Word, it is extremely powerful.
Excel is basically the best spreadsheet software out there.
PowerPoint is interesting for a home user - maybe that could have done with being substituted, not that often you're average home user is going to want to do a presentation to others.
 
For a student version I think microsoft should have actually designed it towards students uses, excel for graphs and powerpoint for class presentations are a must, word could be cut down since all I've ever know anyone (nevermind a student) to use it for is writing letters and reports with some pictures, access is used in computing courses for creating databases so that should be included and publisher is the easiest way to make professional looking posters, banners, leaflets, cards etc and would probably be used by most students. In my time in 6th form I have used all of these programs quite a bit. Really they could cut all their programs down to a more basic student friendly version or check to make sure everyone buying it was a student and that would fix their worries of businesses buying it cheap.

I have never used outlook though I thought it was just a mail client?
 
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Energize said:
The package is pretty poor since it doesn't contain programs like access and publisher like a lot of students need, word isn't a big improvement over notepad really so they should at least add the other 2 in.
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Word is a huge improvement over both Notepad and Wordpad (which is what I assume you meant). I'd absolutely hate it if I had to use Wordpad to do essays.

For me and everyone else I know, this version of Office fits the bill perfectly. Powerpoint for presentations, Word for essays, dissertations etc, Excel for the odd use of a spreadsheet (useful for research stuff, but a generally useful program to have anyway). Wouldn't have any use for Access or Publisher. Not really sure what OneNote is good for yet, but I do intend to sit down and play with it to see if it would actually be useful to me.
 
Dureth said:
Surely as a home user your dreams and needs are met by Windows Mail?! ;)
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Possibly, but as more and more businesses use Outlook it's arguably easier for 'average joe' to use the same app at home.

As a developer I like messing about with things at home - I doubt Windows Mail supports the same advanced features as Outlook!
 
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