Office ACEDEMIC edition

[Jimbo]

I am using open office at the moment, but i dont particulary like it as i prefer microsoft word an other suite. I have come accross the STUDENT and TEACHER edition of the office 2003. Now this is

[Hyperion2]

Look for some sort of authentication...it should say that it's a legal, official copy.  Also look for the words "authentic" or "unused" registration key.  

[JBaymore]

Academic editions are available to faculty and students in accerdited institutions.  They are "real" and legal.  The catch is that you will need to be bale to PROVE that you are within the category guidelines that Microsoft specifies.  I forget the details, but if you are a teacher... you have to be just about full time ...and for a student... I think you also have to be about full time.

There is a process you need to do to activate those programs.  READ the fine print on the package.

best,

................john

[Hyperion2]

Oh, right, the academic part is legit...I'm more referring to the authenticity of purchasing from ebay.  lol

[the_autopilot]

Ok, first, lets get some brand and model names straight.

Student and teacher edition contains four office programs. the four basic ones: Excel 2003, Outlook 2003, PowerPoint 2003, Word 2003. They are the full versians, but their license is different. First, you cannot upgrade to future office editions. Second, its for non-comercial use only, meaning, you cannot use it to make stuff for profit.

Academic versian: All office software has an academic versian.
Office 2003 Pro has an acdemic versian, etc.. Academic versians is just a cheaper (but for non-profit) versian of the regular commercial edition. (Note: there is no academic versian of student and teacher edition).

For example, if you needed Publisher 2003 which only comes with office 2003 pro, then you can buy an academic edition of office 03 pro. You must be a student or a teacher at an accredated insitution to qualify for academic or student and teacher editions.

To answer your question, the student and teacher editions are ok for you if:
-you have no desie to upgrade (so, if you want office 2006, you would have to buy the full versian)
-you are a student or teacher at an accreditaed insitution
-you will not use it for profit. If you use for profit, MS is entitled to a share of your profits (BTW, this applies to all academic versians of any software of any company, not just MS; read the EULA people)

[Jared]

LOL! Eula? What's that? Sounds like a bad date I had once....

I got windows XP pro from my school two years ago or so for $10 and office 2002 for l$20..

Now I heard the other day that the deal with microsoft that the school had has changed and we now have to pay something around 70-80. Which still isn't too bad considering your getting the PRO edition, with every piece of software offered... (In a sense anyway).

Standard procedures say you can only install on one computer, and you can only buy one copy of windows and one copy of office while you are at the university. I would think that you might be able to upgrade to a newer version without too much difficulty..but I could be wrong.

As for other programs such as visual studio dot net 2003 I've seen it on the internet for as much as $800 for the set of cd's...I got the exact same cd's legally with the microsoft authentication stuff for basically free when I purchased the book for the programming class I took this past semester..