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Summary: Activation Required is such a waste of our time
Review: I understand this is measure to stop piracy but once we buy the software we should have the freedom to install it as many times as we went without having to report to daddy gates why we're installing the software again
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Summary: Please correct a miscomseption
Review: I read Lilith's review and followed her suggestion on loading the Office xp for stu...etc. on an additional pc. Called Microsoft and was told by their rep. that that condition was NOT so. I would appreciate clarification on the matter so as not to guide customers to dead end streets.The software is excellent.
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Summary: It's Office XP Standard with a different License Agreement
Review: Here is the License Agreement:Student License
You are not entitled to use the Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers software product unless you meet one of the following three criteria: 1. Full or part-time student.
You must be an enrolled student at an accredited K-12 educational institution or higher education institution organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its students. To be qualified as a student of a higher education institution (an institution requiring its students to have completed their K-12 educational requirements) you must be enrolled and, at the time of your acquisition of the Software Product, carrying at least six credit hours. In order to be considered an accredited institution, the institution must be a public or private K-12 school, vocational school, correspondence school, technical school, scientific school, junior college, college, university or other institution which is both (i) organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its K-12 or higher education students; and (ii) institutionally accredited by a Regional Institutional Accrediting Agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education, including:
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Western Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
New England Association of Colleges and Schools
Northwest Association of Colleges and Schools
Accreditation by a National Institutional or Specialized Accrediting Body alone does not qualify an educational institution as accredited for purposes of determining your status as a Qualified Educational User. 2. Home-schooled student.
You must be a K-12 student, or under the age of eighteen (18), attending to your primary education through a legally recognized home schooling program in your state and either (i) such program belongs to a nationally-recognized home-schooling organization or (ii) you obtain a letter from your local school district which expressly recognizes your home-schooling program as an acceptable alternative to attending an accredited educational institution. 3. Full or part-time faculty or staff of an accredited educational institution.
You must be employed by an accredited educational institution, as defined in Qualification Paragraph 1 above, as faculty or as staff performing administrative duties primarily related to the education of such institution's students, on at least a part-time basis. Part-time shall mean at least twenty hours per week are spent by the user performing such faculty or staff duties.
To determine whether the educational institution which you attend or for whom you work is properly accredited hereunder please contact your educational institution and inquire as to its accreditation status. Erroneous accreditation information obtained from your educational institution shall not be a defense to a charge of non-qualification. So in a nutshell this program is:
For noncommercial, educational use only.
For qualified educational users only.
Nonupgradable.
Nontransferable.
Has installation support only.
Has a nonperpetual license that is tied to the eligibility of the user
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Summary: Padding Bill Gates' pocket!!!
Review: This is just a hyped up, embellished version of their previous software. And to charge that price and not let me install it at work and home!!!! Guess that will stop me from taking my work home with me, won't it! They will let you install on a desktop and laptop under one license, but not two desktops!!! What a farce! I have to use the little money I make doing extra work at home to purchase another program!!!!!!! ANGRY - VERY!!!!
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Summary: Very good product
Review: Very good product. Just a little on the expensive side.
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Summary: Good deal for teachers
Review: This software is a great deal for students or teachers. Does all the same stuff for 1/4 of price.
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Summary: Can't Find Process to Upgrade to XP Pro
Review: I have the standard edition, and Access is not included. I need Access. How do I upgrade from Standard to Pro to get Access, or, better yet, how can I get Access and install it? The package lacks consistency, since it doesn't tell me how I can economically do this.
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Summary: There's a third alternative ...
Review: The software itself is, well, Microsoft! So you either like it (because it's easy to use and convenient) or hate it (because it's not as stable as it should be and because Bill Gates made a lot of money on it). I'm sure there are other editing products but few are as powerful and even fewer are as compatible with everybody else's computers.
I'm not a MS fan but we should give credit when it's deserved and give productive critique. What I wanted to tell you guys is that if you turly are a student or a teacher, there's a third alternative to buying this or the professional version of this product. Check with your college/university/school bookstore and they ought to carry the DISCOUNTED (yes, with capital letters) software (some thing in $[money] range). Microsoft officially allows multiple installation of the student software (because students are not allowed to purchase more than one copy of it to start with).
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: If you are a student or teacher, this is an excellent value. In the distant past, special versions had some features disabled or added annoying "special version" notices to printouts but not so with this. This is the real deal and students can work with real-world software and gain skills that can be migrated to the workplace. Though the Access database program isn't included, the most important and broadly used Excel, Word, Outlook are here. PowerPoint is great too. College courses teaching Microsoft Office is now widespread and getting this is a great start.
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Summary: IT'S DECKED IN HYPES AND TWEAKS
Review: Glorified tweaks here and there will only deceive those that they will. Unless your Office Suite is 97 or earlier, don't lend ears to all the hypes you hear. Most of the "improvements" attributed to Office XP are just over-advertised tweaks that only make the software a bit more user-friendly AND NOT more powerful.
Compared to Office 2000, Microsoft has put up fewer applications for more money: Office 2000 Professional has every application Office XP Professional has PLUS the Publisher and the Small Business Customer Manager. Also, there is this restrictive activation tinge in XP, which implies that if you have a desktop at home, and a laptop for your on-the-move runs, you may have to pay allover again in order to have identical software on your two machines. Fighting piracy is a good deed, but Microsoft must not compel millions of honest customers to pay for her anti-piracy pursuits.
All users of Windows 95 (or earlier versions) beware! Office XP will only run on Windows 98 (or later versions).
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