Difference: MS Standard Edition 2003/MS 2003 for teachers/students

[kdblueey]

Difference between MS Office Standard Edition 2003 & MS Office Standard
Edition for teachers/students???

I downloaded a trial version of MS Office 2003 Standard Edition for
students/teachers for 60 days. It expired without any notice and basically
'locked' all of my saved documents, unless I purchased the program, which
would of cost me $149 online. I used another person's product key for MS
Office 2003, but it wouldn't accept it. I would imagine that she didn't have
the edition for students/teachers. My question: what are the MAJOR
differences between the standard edition 2003 and the edition for
students/teachers? Also, if I get this person's copy of her standard MS
Office 2003, and download it, will my documents, etc., be transferred over?

Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

1.The only difference is the license.
2. If you use your friend's copy of Office, you are violating the terms of the license.

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After furious head scratching, kdblueey asked:

| Difference between MS Office Standard Edition 2003 & MS Office
| Standard Edition for teachers/students???
|
| I downloaded a trial version of MS Office 2003 Standard Edition for
| students/teachers for 60 days. It expired without any notice and
| basically 'locked' all of my saved documents, unless I purchased the
| program, which would of cost me $149 online. I used another person's
| product key for MS Office 2003, but it wouldn't accept it. I would
| imagine that she didn't have the edition for students/teachers. My
| question: what are the MAJOR differences between the standard edition
| 2003 and the edition for students/teachers? Also, if I get this
| person's copy of her standard MS Office 2003, and download it, will
| my documents, etc., be transferred over?
|
| Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Beth Melton]

As far as functionality goes there isn't any difference.

Regarding licensing and using someone else's product key or installing their
software on your computer, that's not something you should do and is
actually illegal. These types of situations are why they created activation.
Now it takes more than installing software and suppling a product key. A
third step was added as an attempt to prevent "sharing" software. When you
activate Office it uses certain hardware from the computer and the product
key to create a type of fingerprint for the installation. So if you use her
product key or "borrow" her software for your computer it will likely not
activate because the "fingerprint" has changed. And there is the potential
of it causing your friend problems with her Office installation because she
"shared" it with you.

The bottom line if you want Office then you need to pay your $149 to legally
license it. Which, if take everything into consideration, it's not that
much. It's far less than what your friend paid and it's only slightly more
than what I just paid to renew my car license, which I pay every year in
order to legally drive it. ;-)

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