[BNM] MS Office Licences

[paul perrin]

Is that an OEM version of office, or an OEM licence for office?

Paul /)/+)

On 01/11/2007, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> > > http://www.e3internet.com
> > >
> > > P please consider the environment - do you really need to print this
> > > email?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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