reduced functionality in outlook 2007 prof trial

[serve4free]

My new computer came with a 60 day trial for Home and Student 2007, during
activation it gave the option to try other suites. What I really need is
office 2007 professional so I chose that, downloaded and installed. It looks
like it downloaded and installed both Home and Student & Professional. The
program I need most, outlook, is in a reduced functionality mode. During
download I was given two product keys, one for a file size of 0MB and one for
a file size of 773MB. The email confirmation for the activation only had the
product key for the 0MB file and it said it was for Home and Student 2007. I
am hoping that I can uninstall Home and Student and correctly activate
Professional (I have a product key for Pro), but a Microsoft support person
said I can activate only one trial version (my guess is one per IP Address?)

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Not per IP address, but per computer. It's all embedded in the registry.
". I
: am hoping that I can uninstall Home and Student and correctly activate
: Professional (I have a product key for Pro), but a Microsoft support
person
: said I can activate only one trial version (my guess is one per IP
Address?)

 

[serve4free]

Thanks Tom. Seems like a bug to download two versions without asking for
confirmation, then only allow one to activate, again without asking (a
message such as "You may only activate one trial version, which would you
like to activate?" would have been appropriate. Now it seems I'm stuck
paying the price for a problem I don't think I created.