Limitations of Microsoft Office Pro 2003 Academic?

Phred · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

Bloke who did the external CS course at CQU a decade or so ago reckons
all these "academic" versions are castrated. If so, there may be a
good argument for a student to put the pressure on for the full
bottle.

So the question is, *are* they limited and, if so, how?
(Thinking specifically of MS Office Pro 2003 in this case.)

The only published limitation I've seen is that the licence doesn't
allow the production of commercial products using the software; but
there couild be other "gotchas" such as very restricted database
tables and similar limitations built-in to these versions.

Any comments from experience?

Cheers, Phred.

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Andrew McLaren · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

There are two versions of Office which sound similar. There's the Office
Pro 2003, Academic edition; and there's the Office 2003 Student and
Teracher Edition.

Office Professional Edition 2003 includes the following programs:
Access 2003
Excel 2003
Outlook 2003
Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager
PowerPoint 2003
Publisher 2003
Word 2003
The academic edition is exactly the same as the ordinary Pro edition; the
only difference is the pricing, non-commercial licence and you have to
produce student ID to buy it.

Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 includes the following programs:
Excel 2003
Outlook 2003
PowerPoint 2003
Word 2003
It can be installed on up to three of your home PCs. It's available to
"suitably qualified purchasers" whatever that means.

> Bloke who did the external CS course at CQU a decade or so ago reckons
> all these "academic" versions are castrated. If so, there may be a

Geez - does doing an external CS course a decade ago, give someone any
special credibility? I went to uni two decades ago, so I must be twice as
believeable Wink

. Anyway - it's true that some vendors, including Microsoft,
released academic versions in the past that had varoius cut down
functionality. That doesn't seem to be so common these days. I suspect the
cost of maintaining 2 separate SKUs doesn't make it worthwhile.

Cheers
Andrew

Phred · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

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Andrew McLaren wrote:

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>Geez - does doing an external CS course a decade ago, give someone any
>special credibility?

Nope, nor was it intended to imply such; just "Once upon a time..."

> I went to uni two decades ago, so I must be twice as
>believeable Wink

.

I bow to your superior knowledge. Smile

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But apart from that, thank you for a very informative response.

Cheers, Phred.

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Rod Speed · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Phred wrote in message$1r9orv$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...

> Bloke who did the external CS course at CQU a decade or
> so ago reckons all these "academic" versions are castrated.

He's wrong.

> If so, there may be a good argument for a
> student to put the pressure on for the full bottle.

Not often.

> So the question is, *are* they limited

Normally not.

> and, if so, how?

Reduced functionality with the occasional example that is limited.

> (Thinking specifically of MS Office Pro 2003 in this case.)

Not limited at all.

> The only published limitation I've seen is that the licence doesn't
> allow the production of commercial products using the software;

Yep, thats generally the way with MS products.

> but there couild be other "gotchas" such as very restricted
> database tables and similar limitations built-in to these versions.

Nope.

> Any comments from experience?

Bugger that, no fun in that.

Justin Thyme · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

"Andrew McLaren" wrote in message@211.29.133.50...
> There are two versions of Office which sound similar. There's the Office
> Pro 2003, Academic edition; and there's the Office 2003 Student and
> Teracher Edition.
>
> Office Professional Edition 2003 includes the following programs:
> Access 2003
> Excel 2003
> Outlook 2003
> Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager
> PowerPoint 2003
> Publisher 2003
> Word 2003
> The academic edition is exactly the same as the ordinary Pro edition; the
> only difference is the pricing, non-commercial licence and you have to
> produce student ID to buy it.
As of 1 Oct 03, you don't even need to do that now - the salesman is
supposed to tell you that if you want to use it for commercial purposes you
need to buy the full-priced version. There is no checking done anymore,
other than what the salesman tells you. In theory, if you did use an
academic version in a commercial environment, Microsoft could take legal
action against you, as you are using it in breach of the licensing
agreement. In practice, I doubt that will happen. Mind you, I wouldn't
want to be on the receiving end of finding out that they do enforce it. One
thing I find curious - MS Office Pro Academic is not for use in a commercial
environment, yet one of the programs included is "Business Contact Manager".
>
> Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 includes the following programs:
> Excel 2003
> Outlook 2003
> PowerPoint 2003
> Word 2003
> It can be installed on up to three of your home PCs. It's available to
> "suitably qualified purchasers" whatever that means.
>
> > Bloke who did the external CS course at CQU a decade or so ago reckons
> > all these "academic" versions are castrated. If so, there may be a
>
> Geez - does doing an external CS course a decade ago, give someone any
> special credibility? I went to uni two decades ago, so I must be twice as
> believeable Wink

. Anyway - it's true that some vendors, including
Microsoft,
> released academic versions in the past that had varoius cut down
> functionality. That doesn't seem to be so common these days. I suspect the
> cost of maintaining 2 separate SKUs doesn't make it worthwhile.
>
> Cheers
> Andrew

Prof. CyBorg_0091 · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

Phred wrote:
> Bloke who did the external CS course at CQU a decade or so ago reckons
> all these "academic" versions are castrated. If so, there may be a
> good argument for a student to put the pressure on for the full
> bottle.
>
> So the question is, *are* they limited and, if so, how?
> (Thinking specifically of MS Office Pro 2003 in this case.)
>
> The only published limitation I've seen is that the licence doesn't
> allow the production of commercial products using the software; but
> there couild be other "gotchas" such as very restricted database
> tables and similar limitations built-in to these versions.
>
> Any comments from experience?
>
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>

First you are casterated to even question MS office,and most certainly
are reflecting the experience of no balls in assumption of such a
subject...from experience MS office has no balls...end of problem..have
a nice day..gayde-wonderful-day

There is no point wondering with fact!
We could spend all day typing about the features of office and how it
works for you...sky high without a tin foil hat.