Update Questions

[Ray Morin]

I would sure appreciate an answer to these several questions....

I own a 3 year old Dell laptop with Dell provided Office 2000 SBE. I have
all the provided disks.

I am about to purchase both a Dell 8500 Laptop and a Dell 8300 Desktop for
my personal use only. I intend to buy them without any Office Software
installed. Here are my questions...

1) Can I purchase an Office XP Pro upgrade from possibly Amazon and using
the Office 2000 CD's as proof of ownership, install the upgrade on both new
computers?

2) Office 2003 release is near. If I buy this Office XP upgrade now, will
I be able to get 2003 upgrade for free since it so close?

No one will use these computers but me. If you have any answers or
suggestions please let me know.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ray,

If you purchase a retail (non-OEM) copy of Office XP
then yes, you can use the Office 2000 Small Business
CD as a qualifying product to install Office XP on
one laptop and one desktop.

Microsoft has not yet announced a technology guarantee
period for Office 2003, so if you buy Office XP now
there isn't any guarantee that you'd get Office 2003
as a free upgrade.

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I would sure appreciate an answer to these several questions....

I own a 3 year old Dell laptop with Dell provided Office 2000 SBE. I have
all the provided disks.

I am about to purchase both a Dell 8500 Laptop and a Dell 8300 Desktop for
my personal use only. I intend to buy them without any Office Software
installed. Here are my questions...

1) Can I purchase an Office XP Pro upgrade from possibly Amazon and using
the Office 2000 CD's as proof of ownership, install the upgrade on both new
computers?

2) Office 2003 release is near. If I buy this Office XP upgrade now, will
I be able to get 2003 upgrade for free since it so close?

No one will use these computers but me. If you have any answers or
suggestions please let me know.

Thanks for your help. >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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[Ray]

Thanks so much for your reply back.

The technology guarantee has me a little concerned.

If I buy the new Dell 8500 without any Office software from Dell, does it
make sense and is it possible and practical, if I were to install Office
2000SBE on it using the OEM disks supplied with the Dell 7500 I am
replacing?

If so then I would wait till the MS guarantee is offered then get the Office
2003 Pro upgrade from Amazon or similar.

What do you advise? I need to use Excel every day for my home business.

Thanks again
Ray