How do I suggest activation limit of MS Office Professional 2007?

[chiponmymedula]

With the cost of MS Office Professional 2007 ($450), it does not gratify by
having only two activation limit. I bought this software not aware of the
activation limit. I have a PC desktop, and three laptops (each one used by
my husband and my two daughters). With today's trend, computers are just
like a basic need in household. How will my family be able to use and share
a file (e.g. MSWord document) between their computers if not all are using
the same software version? Everything is rising, maybe it is time to raise
the activation limit to how much the cost is...!!! I am sure a huge volume
of consumers will agree to this.

 

[DL]

You purchased 4 PC's together with 4 o/s and yet you want to purchase a
single piece of software for all to use.
If its primarily Word / Excel there are cheaper Office versions.

 

[chiponmymedula]

I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able to
download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction. And all I
am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office activation, maybe up to 4 or
6 or providing a clause to how many you actually need. My friend, who is a
teacher, bought the same MS Office Professional 2007... and she has 20
students. What help can this software do?? Nothing, but it will increase
the number of piracy!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

When you are the CEO of Microsoft and are willing to set this limit, to the detriment of your stockholders, come back and the discussion can be continued.

Until then, choose a software product whose licensing models more of what you have in mind (open office comes to mind).

You (nor I) am free to set the licensing model for a for-profit company. Whatever made you think you were?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, chiponmymedula asked:

| I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able
| to download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction.
| And all I am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office
| activation, maybe up to 4 or 6 or providing a clause to how many you
| actually need. My friend, who is a teacher, bought the same MS
| Office Professional 2007... and she has 20 students. What help can
| this software do?? Nothing, but it will increase the number of
| piracy!
|
| "DL" wrote:
|
|| You purchased 4 PC's together with 4 o/s and yet you want to
|| purchase a single piece of software for all to use.
|| If its primarily Word / Excel there are cheaper Office versions.
||
|| message ||| With the cost of MS Office Professional 2007 ($450), it does not
||| gratify by
||| having only two activation limit. I bought this software not aware
||| of the activation limit. I have a PC desktop, and three laptops
||| (each one used by
||| my husband and my two daughters). With today's trend, computers
||| are just like a basic need in household. How will my family be
||| able to use and share
||| a file (e.g. MSWord document) between their computers if not all
||| are using the same software version? Everything is rising, maybe it
||| is time to raise the activation limit to how much the cost is...!!!
||| I am sure a huge volume
||| of consumers will agree to this.

 

[chiponmymedula]

Don't worry, all I can do is send a feedback to Microsoft people about my
suggestion (which I already did before all these discussions). I know, you
nor I can decide on this matter. What I am trying to get to is to have
consumers support my idea. Like I said on setting up examples, E.g... I was
advised by Intuit-Quickbooks Customer Service and Support, that I can
download and activate that software to all my computers as long as it is
licensed to me for use. Fair enough?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I would suggest you read the license on that cheap software. Just because
they don't make you enter product keys doesn't mean you have the right to
install it on every computer in your house.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

 

[Alias]

Don't worry, all I can do is send a feedback to Microsoft people about my
suggestion (which I already did before all these discussions). I know, you
nor I can decide on this matter. What I am trying to get to is to have
consumers support my idea. Like I said on setting up examples, E.g... I was
advised by Intuit-Quickbooks Customer Service and Support, that I can
download and activate that software to all my computers as long as it is
licensed to me for use. Fair enough?

You're assuming that Microsoft cares about their paying customers. They
don't. They take advantage of them with their de facto monopoly. They
only care about their bottom line. As activation proves, they not only
don't care about their paying customers but hold them in total disdain
and consider them to be thieves until they prove otherwise.

Check out www.openoffice.org The latest version can read Office .docx
files while Microsoft Office 2003 cannot without a little publicized patch.

Alias

When you are the CEO of Microsoft and are willing to set this limit, to the detriment of your stockholders, come back and the discussion can be continued.

Until then, choose a software product whose licensing models more of what you have in mind (open office comes to mind).

You (nor I) am free to set the licensing model for a for-profit company. Whatever made you think you were?

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, chiponmymedula asked:

| I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able
| to download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction.
| And all I am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office
| activation, maybe up to 4 or 6 or providing a clause to how many you
| actually need. My friend, who is a teacher, bought the same MS
| Office Professional 2007... and she has 20 students. What help can
| this software do?? Nothing, but it will increase the number of
| piracy!
|
| "DL" wrote:
|
|| You purchased 4 PC's together with 4 o/s and yet you want to
|| purchase a single piece of software for all to use.
|| If its primarily Word / Excel there are cheaper Office versions.
||
|| message ||| With the cost of MS Office Professional 2007 ($450), it does not
||| gratify by
||| having only two activation limit. I bought this software not aware
||| of the activation limit. I have a PC desktop, and three laptops
||| (each one used by
||| my husband and my two daughters). With today's trend, computers
||| are just like a basic need in household. How will my family be
||| able to use and share
||| a file (e.g. MSWord document) between their computers if not all
||| are using the same software version? Everything is rising, maybe it
||| is time to raise the activation limit to how much the cost is...!!!
||| I am sure a huge volume
||| of consumers will agree to this.

 

[chiponmymedula]

Actually, Intuit-Quickbooks is not a cheap software ($200) for one accounting
application sofware, and like I said, I called their customer service and was
told that as long as it is licensed to my name, I can download it to all my
computers. I just hope that this won't happen to our drivers license...
right now, you can own and drive as many cars you can and only have one
drivers license and is less than $50 to use for ten years...!So if you drive
for 70 years /10 x $50 = $350, that is still cheaper than one MS Office
Professional 2007.

I would suggest you read the license on that cheap software. Just because
they don't make you enter product keys doesn't mean you have the right to
install it on every computer in your house.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able to
download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction. And all
I
am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office activation, maybe up to 4
or
6 or providing a clause to how many you actually need. My friend, who is
a
teacher, bought the same MS Office Professional 2007... and she has 20
students. What help can this software do?? Nothing, but it will increase
the number of piracy!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Have you considered a volume license? Also, Home and Student allows three
activations within a household and it may be that the full suite is not even
needed on some of your computers.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It does happen with cars. Its called your license plates.

Actually, Intuit-Quickbooks is not a cheap software ($200) for one
accounting
application sofware, and like I said, I called their customer service and
was
told that as long as it is licensed to my name, I can download it to all
my
computers. I just hope that this won't happen to our drivers license...
right now, you can own and drive as many cars you can and only have one
drivers license and is less than $50 to use for ten years...!So if you
drive
for 70 years /10 x $50 = $350, that is still cheaper than one MS Office
Professional 2007.

I would suggest you read the license on that cheap software. Just because
they don't make you enter product keys doesn't mean you have the right to
install it on every computer in your house.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



message

I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able to
download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction. And
all
I
am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office activation, maybe up
to 4
or
6 or providing a clause to how many you actually need. My friend, who
is
a
teacher, bought the same MS Office Professional 2007... and she has 20
students. What help can this software do?? Nothing, but it will
increase
the number of piracy!

:

You purchased 4 PC's together with 4 o/s and yet you want to purchase
a
single piece of software for all to use.
If its primarily Word / Excel there are cheaper Office versions.

message
With the cost of MS Office Professional 2007 ($450), it does not
gratify
by
having only two activation limit. I bought this software not aware
of
the
activation limit. I have a PC desktop, and three laptops (each one
used
by
my husband and my two daughters). With today's trend, computers are
just
like a basic need in household. How will my family be able to use
and
share
a file (e.g. MSWord document) between their computers if not all are
using
the same software version? Everything is rising, maybe it is time to
raise
the activation limit to how much the cost is...!!! I am sure a huge
volume
of consumers will agree to this.

 

[chiponmymedula]

Here's the formula:
Computers = Cars
Cars need licensed drivers
Computers need licensed drivers (softwares)
Licensed drivers can drive more than two owned cars
Licensed drivers (softwares should be able to drive more than two computers.

It does happen with cars. Its called your license plates.

Actually, Intuit-Quickbooks is not a cheap software ($200) for one
accounting
application sofware, and like I said, I called their customer service and
was
told that as long as it is licensed to my name, I can download it to all
my
computers. I just hope that this won't happen to our drivers license...
right now, you can own and drive as many cars you can and only have one
drivers license and is less than $50 to use for ten years...!So if you
drive
for 70 years /10 x $50 = $350, that is still cheaper than one MS Office
Professional 2007.

I would suggest you read the license on that cheap software. Just because
they don't make you enter product keys doesn't mean you have the right to
install it on every computer in your house.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



message
I can buy a cheap software (any other than MS softwares) and be able to
download it into my 4 computers, no limit and with satisfaction. And
all
I
am suggesting is to raise the limit of MS Office activation, maybe up
to 4
or
6 or providing a clause to how many you actually need. My friend, who
is
a
teacher, bought the same MS Office Professional 2007... and she has 20
students. What help can this software do?? Nothing, but it will
increase
the number of piracy!

:

You purchased 4 PC's together with 4 o/s and yet you want to purchase
a
single piece of software for all to use.
If its primarily Word / Excel there are cheaper Office versions.

message
With the cost of MS Office Professional 2007 ($450), it does not
gratify
by
having only two activation limit. I bought this software not aware
of
the
activation limit. I have a PC desktop, and three laptops (each one
used
by
my husband and my two daughters). With today's trend, computers are
just
like a basic need in household. How will my family be able to use
and
share
a file (e.g. MSWord document) between their computers if not all are
using
the same software version? Everything is rising, maybe it is time to
raise
the activation limit to how much the cost is...!!! I am sure a huge
volume
of consumers will agree to this.