Difference between full MS Office and Academic

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I'm contemplating the purchase of MS Office and was wondering, other than the enormous price difference, what's the difference between the full price MS Office and the Academic MS Office.



Normally I'd just steal the damn thing from my employer but they really don't support Macs anymore.

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    The only difference is the price.
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    jcat22jcat22 Posts: 17member
    I purchased the Academic Version and it seems pretty full to me.



    My employer went and switched to "Dull" <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    My Word educational box says "Not for use in a commercial environment," but it's full featured and M$ doesn't seem to have a way to enforce that-YET...

    <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Jeff
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    mac voyermac voyer Posts: 1,295member
    There is a difference, at least on the PC side. You cannot upgrade the academic version. The same is probably true for the Mac as well.
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    nebrienebrie Posts: 483member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mac Voyer:

    <strong>There is a difference, at least on the PC side. You cannot upgrade the academic version. The same is probably true for the Mac as well.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Wasn't that just for the super-duper cheap version Student version you can buy at the local supermarket now?
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    vasvas Posts: 16member
    We can purchase the academic version of the entire Office suite at the University of Wisconsin for $25 if you're a student, or for $32 for 10 copies if you're buying for a department. There's no license code or key to input and no registration necessary. That's the only difference as far as I can tell.



    It's nice to get Office for so cheap, but the University sold its soul to the devil to make such a deal.
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    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Wasn't that just for the super-duper cheap version Student version you can buy at the local supermarket now?<hr></blockquote>



    Er...no idea what you're talking about.



    Legally, you cannot use "upgrades" in conjunction with most academic software. It's in the end-user license agreement. Basically, for the discount, all special offers, coupons, upgrade pricing and such have already been figured into the final pricing of academic software, so if you upgrade Office 2001 Academic to Office v.X retail you are breaking federal law.



    In many cases nothing stops you from actually doing this though. I was able to apply an Office 98 Academic serial number to an install of Office 2001.



    My guess is Office v.X has made it impossible to use previous serial numbers however.
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