Guest Choong Mun Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or web-site,where I can post the question. Thank you. warm regards, Fong Choong Mun.
Guest DL Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? Your not going to get an answer from MS on this, a peer to peer group, neither will you likely get any sensible answer from MS other than them simply quoting the EULA. But yes you can use it for none commersial use (other than achademic) "Choong Mun" <ChoongMun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9FFA2EA1-AC17-44E8-8C36-1E6C6DBB1BFC@microsoft.com... > My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor > cum > teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft > office > was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use > the > desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft > itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or > web-site,where I can post the question. > Thank you. > warm regards, > Fong Choong Mun. >
Guest Big_Al Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? Choong Mun wrote: > My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum > teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office > was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the > desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft > itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or > web-site,where I can post the question. > Thank you. > warm regards, > Fong Choong Mun. > My wife works for a school. The license they have allows her to keep a copy on home PC's as long as she is employed by the school. But that is her license. You'd have to speak to your wife's IT people to truely know what she is entitled to and if you are entitled to it.
Guest SonomaAirporter Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 RE: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? Check this out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/bb250608.aspx According to the EULA, even your wife can't use it for non-academic purposes! Good ole M$...... "Choong Mun" wrote: > My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum > teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office > was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the > desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft > itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or > web-site,where I can post the question. > Thank you. > warm regards, > Fong Choong Mun. >
Guest Bill Sharpe Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? SonomaAirporter wrote: > Check this out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/bb250608.aspx > According to the EULA, even your wife can't use it for non-academic > purposes! Good ole M$...... > > "Choong Mun" wrote: > >> My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum >> teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office >> was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the >> desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft >> itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or >> web-site,where I can post the question. >> Thank you. >> warm regards, >> Fong Choong Mun. >> Note that very last paragraph of the referenced license: The following software is excluded from the MSDN AA program and may not be used by you or any of your staff, faculty, or students under these terms: * Microsoft Office I suspect there's a separate academic license somewhere that covers MS Office. I'd ask the school.
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? > office was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I > use the desk top? Assuming you're asking if you, too, can use the software installed on the family desktop PC, yes, but you cannot install it on another desktop PC. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Choong Mun wrote: > My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor > cum teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft > office was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I > use the desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from > microsoft itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail > address or web-site,where I can post the question. > Thank you. > warm regards, > Fong Choong Mun.
Guest VanguardLH Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? "Choong Mun" in <news:9FFA2EA1-AC17-44E8-8C36-1E6C6DBB1BFC@microsoft.com> wrote: > My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum > teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office > was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the > desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft > itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or > web-site,where I can post the question. > Thank you. > warm regards, > Fong Choong Mun. Read the eula.txt file that got installed under the C:\Windows\System32 folder. You obviously don't qualify for the license. Whether or not your wife qualifies to install it on her computer or a shared family computer depends on what the license says. Since she is already using it then the eula.txt file exists. As I recall, the licensed user of MS Office was allowed 2 concurrent installs: one on their primary host and another on a secondary host. However, I believe the caveat was that only one instance could be in use at a time. You are not the licensed user. You also cannot guarantee that your wife isn't using her instance while you are using yours. Again, the EULA will clarify the conditions of how many installations, concurrent usage, and who can use the installed instance(s). If you want an answer from Microsoft, you will have to call them. Start by following the Contact Us link on Microsoft's home page. This is a newsgroup, not a free avenue for support from Microsoft. If you are unfamiliar to what are Usenet and newsgroups, read the following articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup The webnews-for-dummies interface to Usenet that Microsoft provides in their "Communities" is Microsoft pretending they have forums. What they have is a web gateway to Usenet. Despite Microsoft's attempt to usurp Usenet, this is still Usenet despite Microsoft.
Guest Gurney Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 Re: OK to use Microsoft Office Academic Edition? On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:08:01 -0700, Choong Mun <ChoongMun@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >My wife use the academic edition of microsoft office. She is a counsellor cum >teacher. I am a retired aircraft maintenance engineer. The microsoft office >was installed in our family desk top. Can I use the software when I use the >desk top? For this question I would appreciate an answer from microsoft >itself. Alternatively I would appreciate the Microsoft e-mail address or >web-site,where I can post the question. >Thank you. >warm regards, >Fong Choong Mun. Why ask HERE? Do you see OFFICE in this group's title? NO. Ask elsewhere
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