[BNM] MS Office Licences

[andrew holway]

I have an OEM office, Its a copy that comes with a new PC.

Im pretty sure it does mail merges.......


On 01/11/2007, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
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