MS Point of Contact? - Educational versions need Access!!!

[Glenn Maples]

My name is Glenn Maples and I am a professor at the University of Louisiana.

My immediate concern [immediate being perhaps a bit premature ] is the
suites that will be offered for Office 07. My problem is that it looks like
that Access will be offered only in the professional and over suites.

I believe that this needs to be offered in student and teacher
editions--Access is a core educational product. So, who do I talk to? It
would seem unreasonable to require all HS and college students to buy
professional simply to get access.

thanks
-glenn

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Access can be purchased as a stand-alone product. Plus I really doubt that
educational facilities will be requesting Office 2007 for a several years.
I'd be willing to bet that most are still using 2002 if not 2000.

 

[Og]

Hello Glenn:

I am Steve Blahut and I am a Sewage Treatment Plant Operator at the LOTT
WWTP in Olympia, Washington.
I will try to break this to you gently: These newsgroups are where users
help users who are experiencing difficultly with features of the Microsoft
Office Suite of applications. We are not Microsoft, and (with rare
exceptions) we are not Microsoft employees.

Posting complaints about possible features of yet to be released Microsoft
Office editions in a newsgroup is equivalent to a Sewage Treatment Plant
Operator entering the faculty lounge at the University of Louisiana to
complain that changes proposed to the TR Muncher brand of rag chopper will
no longer suit my usage. )

Steve

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Well, that's certainly something I never would have thought I would read
here.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hello Glenn:

I am Steve Blahut and I am a Sewage Treatment Plant Operator at the LOTT
WWTP in Olympia, Washington.
I will try to break this to you gently: These newsgroups are where users
help users who are experiencing difficultly with features of the Microsoft
Office Suite of applications. We are not Microsoft, and (with rare
exceptions) we are not Microsoft employees.

Posting complaints about possible features of yet to be released Microsoft
Office editions in a newsgroup is equivalent to a Sewage Treatment Plant
Operator entering the faculty lounge at the University of Louisiana to
complain that changes proposed to the TR Muncher brand of rag chopper will
no longer suit my usage. )

Steve

My name is Glenn Maples and I am a professor at the University of
Louisiana.

My immediate concern [immediate being perhaps a bit premature ] is the
suites that will be offered for Office 07. My problem is that it looks
like
that Access will be offered only in the professional and over suites.

I believe that this needs to be offered in student and teacher
editions--Access is a core educational product. So, who do I talk to?
It
would seem unreasonable to require all HS and college students to buy
professional simply to get access.

thanks
-glenn

 

[Og]

)

Steve

Well, that's certainly something I never would have thought I would read
here.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Hello Glenn:

I am Steve Blahut and I am a Sewage Treatment Plant Operator at the LOTT
WWTP in Olympia, Washington.
I will try to break this to you gently: These newsgroups are where users
help users who are experiencing difficultly with features of the
Microsoft Office Suite of applications. We are not Microsoft, and (with
rare exceptions) we are not Microsoft employees.

Posting complaints about possible features of yet to be released
Microsoft Office editions in a newsgroup is equivalent to a Sewage
Treatment Plant Operator entering the faculty lounge at the University of
Louisiana to complain that changes proposed to the TR Muncher brand of
rag chopper will no longer suit my usage. )

Steve

My name is Glenn Maples and I am a professor at the University of
Louisiana.

My immediate concern [immediate being perhaps a bit premature ] is
the
suites that will be offered for Office 07. My problem is that it looks
like
that Access will be offered only in the professional and over suites.

I believe that this needs to be offered in student and teacher
editions--Access is a core educational product. So, who do I talk to?
It
would seem unreasonable to require all HS and college students to buy
professional simply to get access.

thanks
-glenn

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

FYI - the Home and Student version is the current equivalent to the Students
and Teachers Edition, never meant for IHE usage. The version of Office
offered at academic prices by universities and colleges has always been
Office Professional.

If you are indeed a university professor, then I would suggest a little
homework on your part is needed.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.


After furious head scratching, Glenn Maples wrote:

| My name is Glenn Maples and I am a professor at the University of
| Louisiana.
|
| My immediate concern [immediate being perhaps a bit premature ] is
| the suites that will be offered for Office 07. My problem is that it
| looks like that Access will be offered only in the professional and
| over suites.
|
| I believe that this needs to be offered in student and teacher
| editions--Access is a core educational product. So, who do I talk
| to? It would seem unreasonable to require all HS and college
| students to buy professional simply to get access.
|
| thanks
| -glenn

 

[Glenn Maples]

Thanks Milly,

Yes, indeed I am a professor - generally the upper division courses
(Datamining, intro to db (oracle or sql server), programming (java or C#),
architctures, porject management , pom, mba courses lots of courses.

Thanks, yes I was thinking that the one the students used for the lower
classes was "students and teachers edition". Before my current life, I
taught HS as well. Besides, I get easily confused.

I would still argue that S&E edition should have access for those darn
students and teachers.

And yes I know that this site is not necessarily the best forum, but I was
posting in another forum here and thought I would see if anyone from MS was
"listening in."

Thanks to all
-glenn