[BNM] MS Office Licences

[paul perrin]

I am not an expert on MS... but...

I wasn't aware that there was an 'oem' version of MS Office... Are you sure
they arent referring to 'MS Works' which does come with quite a few new PCs.

There used to be a 'pro' version of works that included a full version of MS
word (which at the time was the cheapest way of getting it). But now that
there are home/student versions of office, I don't know if this is still
true.

The action pack (not the partner pack) includes a number of office licences,
but is intended for companies that recommend/sell MS products - however if
you qualify, you company can use them for its own business without any real
restriciton. Due to 'abuse' it is now required that action pack subscribers
pass a 'test' every now and then to show that they are actually competent to
recommend/sell MS products.

So I don't think there are any short cuts -- they just need to work out how
many licences they need, and look for the best deal.

The cheapest way may be to put a single version on a PC, and let people
'remote desktop' to it when they need mail merge?

Paul /)/+)

On 01/11/2007, Nick Wilsdon <n.wilsdon at e3internet.com> wrote:
>
> Morning all,
>
> A friend of mine has run into a problem. The software they are installing
> for a company requires MS Office plug-ins to produce mail merges etc. This
> company only has OEM licenses which apparently don't let you do this?
>
> They have suggested they need a server copy of MS Office which apparently
> costs a few thousand pounds and my friend is trying to work out a) if this
> is needed and b) if there is a cheaper way.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone?
>
> I know someone mentioned the MS partnerpack a while back but the consensus
> was it couldn't be used for commercial or production environments?
>
> HYPERLINK
> "http://www.microsoft.com/windows/partnerpack/cd.aspx"
> http://www.microsoft.c
> om/windows/partnerpack/cd.aspx
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Nick
>
> CEO
> e3internet
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