[BNM] MS Office Licences

[andrew holway]

God knows, I cant find the product information page on this new
fangled 2007 ribbon thing gawdammit.

I think an oem license but it does say "Non-commercial use" across the top.



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