License question

[Victoria Bolton]

One of my co-workers was sold a copy of Home and Student 2007 by a retail
store. It was my understanding that student versions were for students only.
He told the employee that he was not a student at all but the employee said
it was for non-students as well, that being the 'home' part.

I have been trying to find something specific on the website but couldn't
see a 'for use by enrolled students only'.

The package is as yet unopened and I do not want him to break any seals to
get the EULA out in case the store refuses to accept it as a return.

Can someone confirm wether this version is legal for him please? It is for
use on one computer and there are no kids in the house.

 

[Alias]

One of my co-workers was sold a copy of Home and Student 2007 by a retail
store. It was my understanding that student versions were for students only.
He told the employee that he was not a student at all but the employee said
it was for non-students as well, that being the 'home' part.

I have been trying to find something specific on the website but couldn't
see a 'for use by enrolled students only'.

The package is as yet unopened and I do not want him to break any seals to
get the EULA out in case the store refuses to accept it as a return.

Can someone confirm wether this version is legal for him please? It is for
use on one computer and there are no kids in the house.

Like the salesman said, what do you think "home" means? It's legal to
install on three computers and having kids has nothing to do with it.
Kids do not necessarily a home make. What you're not supposed to use it
for is a business, even a home business, although Microsoft would be
hard pressed to know whether or not it's used for that.

Alias

 

[Gordon]

One of my co-workers was sold a copy of Home and Student 2007 by a retail
store. It was my understanding that student versions were for students
only.
He told the employee that he was not a student at all but the employee
said
it was for non-students as well, that being the 'home' part.

I have been trying to find something specific on the website but couldn't
see a 'for use by enrolled students only'.

The package is as yet unopened and I do not want him to break any seals to
get the EULA out in case the store refuses to accept it as a return.

Can someone confirm wether this version is legal for him please? It is for
use on one computer and there are no kids in the house.

I think the "Home" bit means non-commercial......

 

[dgmacmi]

One of my co-workers was sold a copy of Home and Student 2007 by a retail
store. It was my understanding that student versions were for students
only.
He told the employee that he was not a student at all but the employee
said
it was for non-students as well, that being the 'home' part.

I have been trying to find something specific on the website but couldn't
see a 'for use by enrolled students only'.

The package is as yet unopened and I do not want him to break any seals to
get the EULA out in case the store refuses to accept it as a return.

Can someone confirm wether this version is legal for him please? It is for
use on one computer and there are no kids in the house.

Office 2007 Home and Student is for non-comerical use only.

Don

 

[Bob I]

Office 2007 Home and Student is not surprisingly for "Homes" and
"Students". You may install it on up to 3 PCs in your home for use by
family members for non business use. It may NOT be used for any
commercial endeavors and is so branded.

link to the use terms download below, so you may read it without opening
the package.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C4-FA3A-4F9F-82B6-CBCD6108A980&displaylang=en

 

[Victoria Bolton]

My apologies for apparantly missing the obvious. All previous student
editions were not valid for non students so I was just making sure it was
valid and that this is something MS was doing different with 2007. My
co-worker is an elected official and does not need someone claiming he is
pirating software to the local newspapers.

I appreciate that kids do not make a home, I do not and never will have any
of my own, but I mentioned it so that there was no confusion as to wether
there were school attending people in the household.

Thankyou for the confirmation

 

[Victoria Bolton]

Thankyou Gordon

I think the "Home" bit means non-commercial......

 

[Earle Horton]

My apologies for apparantly missing the obvious. All previous student
editions were not valid for non students so I was just making sure it was
valid and that this is something MS was doing different with 2007. My
co-worker is an elected official and does not need someone claiming he is
pirating software to the local newspapers.

Use of the software for government purposes may or may not constitute
commercial use, but I think it would certainly be "non-home" use. On the
other hand if your co-worker uses city equipment for personal use that would
be suspect too. You can't win. When I was working just about everyone I
knew would check personal email at work, and check work email at home. If
you want to be a stickler both are wrong.

Earle

 

[Mark]

Once again, I just got off the phone with Drew at Microsoft.

He admitted, it was an ambiguous statement, and left a gray area, but not to
confuse, commercial use. Not for business stated!

I may not produce fliers, posters, ads for sale, or allow anyone to pay to
use the service.

Drew went on to say, that they are not adddressing this issue, because it is
not a problem.

He quoted "As long as you are not making money, by making sellable products,
the use of Home and Student in an Office was absolutely fine in an Office
enviroment.