Office 2003/2007 License Conflict?

[Ribelle]

I adore Office 2007 Professional, but my new employer is using 2003 until the
next version is available next winter (Office 2010 I think). In the meantime,
I feel so limited by the step backwards in functionality that I happily
offered to buy my own copy of 2007 and install it on my work laptop. They
said I am free to install programs on my work computer *as long as it does
not interfere with any of their licenses*.
So my question: Is there any licensing problem with me installing a personal
copy of Office 2007 Professional on my work laptop that currently runs Office
2003?
Thank you for your help!

 

[DL]

It depends what they mean by interfere.
You can install 2007 in parallel with 2003, but only the one version of
Outlook can be installed, so if you leave outlook 2003 in place you wont
have full intergration with 2007 components.
You should ask them whether you can uninstall Office 2003 version entirely -
their licence for 2003 will still be retained by them. 2007 would be
installed with your licence key

 

[Earle Horton]

You don't have to uninstall, just run Setup and make selected Office 2003
components "not available". My guess is that you would only have to do that
with Outlook.

Earle

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I adore Office 2007 Professional, but my new employer is using 2003 until the
next version is available next winter (Office 2010 I think). In the meantime,
I feel so limited by the step backwards in functionality that I happily
offered to buy my own copy of 2007 and install it on my work laptop. They
said I am free to install programs on my work computer *as long as it does
not interfere with any of their licenses*.
So my question: Is there any licensing problem with me installing a personal
copy of Office 2007 Professional on my work laptop that currently runs Office
2003?
Thank you for your help!

Others have addressed the licensing issue. More fundamentally, though: have
you tried moving documents back and forth between 2007 and 2003? It can make
some real messes. I'd test carefully first.

 

[DL]

I've never experienced any probs with docs, created in either version

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've never experienced any probs with docs, created in either version

You've never moved them back and forth in PowerPoint, then. What a horror.

The fact that one person may not have had any problems with their specific
files means that they've had no problems with their specific files. It's
probably not a good idea to generalize too far from that.

Testing is good. Assuming is bad.

 

[DL]

No not Powerpoint which I rarely use, but Word & excel