Comment on Mac vs Windoze prices for Office.
The software licence (U of T, same for other institutions that do this) is *less* for
the Mac OS X version of Office than for the Windoze XP version ($112 vs $120 IIRC).
BTW This isn't a site licence, it's an individual licence (not subsidised by the
university) valid for as long as you're affiliated with the institution.
Eric.
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:23:34 -0400
From: James Sedgwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: os x.2
At 2:11 PM -0700 09/25/2003, Steve Kidd wrote:
>Catherine writes:
>
>> why stop a single user from using their single
>> user copy on all their machines,
>
>Because you're only licensed to use it on a single machine, so you can't use
>it simultaneously on two machines.
>
>The other they have little control over, at least from the software side.
Actually you can use it on all your machines at the same time, they fixed that after
the initial release. Well you can run one app like Word on one machine and another
like Excel on a second machine on the same subnet simultaneously.
They also came out with a teacher/student edition at a steep discount that allows for
3 legal installs with the single purchase.
Office for Windows is still way cheaper tho but that isn't just M$, Stuffit for
Windows is also half the price of the Mac version.
Regards, James
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