MS Office: Student/Teacher edition or Standard?

Question

What are the reasons to buy the more expensive standard edition of Microsoft Office over the Student Teacher Edition which is cheaper and has more licences.
Note: The program will be for home use only.

Answer 1

The license is (as the name implies) for teachers and students only.
As a "normal" mortal, you have to pay the full license, if you can't provide some kind of sutudent pass or teacher license or something like that.
Technically, there is no difference between these two.
Legally, its just a different license.
Since students have no income (yet) and have to pay for school, the office license for students is cheaper.

If you're into conspiracy theories, you can also think of the following: As a student you got Microsoft Office for cheap.
Now you are older and earn money. So instead of learning to use another Office suite (e.g. the free Open Office), you still buy MS Office, since you learned how to use it all this time.

Answer 2

Hi,

Microsoft hands out discounted licenses for students and teachers. These editions are pretty much the same as the standard commercial editions.

If you don't want to shell out money, you can download a FREE office program for windows. It works as well as MS office if not better. Its from Sun (the software company!). Its called OpenOffice and is available for free download it from:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.0/index.html

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Actually, I noticed that the latest versions (2007) is now called Office Home & Student (not Student & Teacher anymore).

It lists at Staples for $149 with a $40 rebate for the Full version. It no longer includes Outlook, but hase OneNote.

The big question is why do the stand alone versions of Excel, Word, and Powerpoint each cost $229 when the whole package is $149?

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?ts=1179256907896&langId=-1&storeId=10001&productId=164732&prodCatType=1&catalogId=10051&cmArea=FEATURED:SC3:CG5:DP1883#desclink

Answer 4

Look at the Student/Teacher Edition. Do you see WORD on the package? Do you see EXCEL? Do you see Powerpoint? Do you see Access? Do you see Outlook? Do you see Front Page? Which of these packages do you need or what? The PRO version has them all. But if you only need Word and Excel, then get the Teacher/Student Edition. It will work fine for you.

Answer 5

Its licenced specially for students and teachers, as studenst are poor, and teachers are paid low, so theres your answer, also to encourgae kids to use Microsoft products.

Under any other uses, its illegal.

Answer 6

if you are planing for only home use, y spend money on that. rather dnload open office . it gives you the same features that ms office has and is free.
or you could dnload ms office. wink wink